Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Competence
Title | Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Competence PDF eBook |
Author | Lies Sercu |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781853598432 |
Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Communication: An International Investigation reports on a study that focused on teachers' beliefs regarding intercultural competence teaching in foreign language education. Its conclusions are based on data collected in a quantitative comparative study that comprises questionnaire answers received from teachers in seven countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Poland, Mexico, Greece, Spain and Sweden. It not only creates new knowledge on the variability, and relative consistency, of today's foreign language teachers' views regarding intercultural competence teaching in a number of countries, but also gives us a picture that is both more concrete and more comprehensive than previously known.
Teaching Intercultural Competence Across the Age Range
Title | Teaching Intercultural Competence Across the Age Range PDF eBook |
Author | Manuela Wagner |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | 185 |
Release | 2017-10-19 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1783098929 |
This ground-breaking book is the first to describe in detail how teachers, supported by university educators and education advisers, might plan and implement innovative ideas based on sound theoretical foundations. Focusing on the teaching and learning of intercultural communicative competence in foreign language classrooms in the USA, the authors describe a collaborative project in which graduate students and teachers planned, implemented and reported on units which integrated intercultural competence in a systematic way in classrooms ranging from elementary to university level. The authors are clear and honest about what worked and what didn’t, both in their classrooms and during the process of collaboration. This book will be required reading for both scholars and teachers interested in applying academic theory in the classroom, and in the teaching of intercultural competence.
Online Intercultural Exchange
Title | Online Intercultural Exchange PDF eBook |
Author | Robert O'Dowd |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | 305 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1847690084 |
Providing an overview of how online technology is being used for foreign language learning, this title assesses three different models of telecollaboration and covers theoretical approaches to online intercultural exchange as well as practical aspects.
Intercultural Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Contexts
Title | Intercultural Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Contexts PDF eBook |
Author | Romanowski, Piotr |
Publisher | IGI Global |
Total Pages | 323 |
Release | 2019-02-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1522581294 |
While research into intercultural teaching has grown exponentially during the past two decades, the research has primarily resorted to the use of quantitative data collection instruments and the interpretation of scores calculated through them. As such, studies in the field can seem somewhat decontextualized, ignoring in some cases setting-specific parameters. Therefore, further study is needed to bring together theory, research, and practice demonstrating how this teaching is reflected in research design and how it is undertaken in different settings. Intercultural Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Contexts is an essential reference source that provides a series of rich insights into the way intercultural education is practiced in numerous international contexts and showcases practical examples of teaching situations and classroom activities that demonstrate its impact within the classroom. Featuring research on topics such as higher education, multilingualism, and professionalism, this book is ideally designed for educators, researchers, administrators, professionals, academicians, and students seeking pedagogical guidance on intercultural teaching.
Developing Intercultural Competence in Practice
Title | Developing Intercultural Competence in Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Byram |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | 302 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781853595363 |
It is now widely recognised that learning a language should not just involve linguistic competence but also intercultural competence. It is also clear that intercultural competence can be developed through related subjects such as geography, history, mother tongue teaching. This book takes this as a given and provides practical help for teachers who wish to help their learners acquire intercultural competence in the ordinary classroom. It contains descriptions of lessons and materials from a wide range of classrooms in several countries and for beginners to advanced learners.
Mediating Languages and Cultures
Title | Mediating Languages and Cultures PDF eBook |
Author | Dieter Buttjes |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781853590702 |
The history of "language teaching" is shot through with methods and approaches to language learning - most recently with "communicative language teaching" - but this book demonstrates that a more differentiated and richer understanding of learning a foreign language is both necessary and desirable. Languages and cultures are interlinked and interdependent and their teaching and learning should be too. Learning another language is part of a complex process of learning and understanding other people's ways of life, ways of thinking and socio-economic experience
The World a Global Village
Title | The World a Global Village PDF eBook |
Author | Katja Lochtman |
Publisher | ASP / VUBPRESS / UPA |
Total Pages | 167 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9054874813 |
Exploring sociocultural competence and the promotion of intercultural communication, this study aims to clearly define the concepts behind teaching foreign language and the connections between culture and language. As foreign language teaching continues to increasingly focus on the relationship between culture and language, understanding the link and what it means becomes more important. Objective and informative, this examination particularly looks at English as a lingua franca between speakers of different languages and cultural backgrounds from the perspectives of nonnative English speakers and explores how that affects pedagogical approaches to teaching foreign language.