The teaching of target language civilization and the development of intercultural competence in Hungarian as a foreign language course books – with an outlook on the B1 level Origo language exam

Abstract

In this paper I present the cultural contents of two Hungarian as a foreign languages coursebook series: MagyarOK I–II–III. and Halló, itt Magyarország! I–II. I analyse how the teaching of cultural contents helps to develop communicative competences and in what ways it can contribute to developing and maintaining intrinsic and extrinsic, as well as performance motivation. Furthermore, I present the cultural knowledge and cultural know-how that is required at a level B1 language exam and in everyday life in the target language environment.