Intercultural Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Contexts
Intercultural Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Contexts

Author: Romanowski, Piotr

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2019-02-01

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1522581294

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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.

Language Teachers, Politics and Cultures
Language Teachers, Politics and Cultures

Author: Michael Byram

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9781853594410

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Foreign language teaching is social interaction, subject to the influences and forces of the societies in which it takes place. This text argues that geo-political changes have an effect on language teachers in their beliefs about their work and in the everyday methods they use in their classrooms. Based on empirical research in Denmark and England, the book explores the effects of major contemporary changes as they are perceived and understood by language teachers.

Mediating Languages and Cultures
Mediating Languages and Cultures

Author: Dieter Buttjes

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9781853590702

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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

Context and Culture in Language Teaching and Learning
Context and Culture in Language Teaching and Learning

Author: Michael Byram

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9781853596575

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The chapters in this book all address the significance of the relationship between the aims and methods of language teaching and the contexts in which it takes place. Some consider the implications for the ways in which we research language teaching; others present the results of research and development work.

Teaching-and-learning Language-and-culture
Teaching-and-learning Language-and-culture

Author: Michael Byram

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781853592119

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Offers some theoretical innovations in teaching foreign languages and reports how they have been applied to curriculum development and experimental courses at the upper secondary and college levels. Approaches language learning as comprising several dimensions, including grammatical competence, change in attitudes, learning about another culture, and reflecting on one's own. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Competence
Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Competence

Author: Lies Sercu

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781853598432

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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.

The Handbook of Plurilingual and Intercultural Language Learning
The Handbook of Plurilingual and Intercultural Language Learning

Author: Christiane Fäcke

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2025-02-10

Total Pages: 581

ISBN-13: 1394165919

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Our evolving understanding of the role of English as a lingua franca and our growing sensitivity to the unique needs of students and teachers who communicate across languages and cultures has led to significant changes in language teaching, pedagogy, and curriculum design. The Handbook of Plurilingual and Intercultural Language Learning is a field-defining book, which examines the various ways learners learn and acquire language in a truly global context. Featuring contributions from a diverse range of scholars reflecting different cultural, linguistic, regional, and ideological perspectives, this innovative volume presents the most recent developments in the field while revealing the nuances and complexities of teaching and learning foreign languages. This Handbook explains the conceptual basis of intercultural and plurilingual learning, describes core pedagogical concepts, discusses different learning and teaching approaches, and provides the historical background for various methods and theories. The authors discuss how policy and pedagogy can adapt to the shifting demographics of local student populations, address new trends and evolving themes, and explore contemporary topics such as translanguaging, intercomprehension, technology-enhanced learning, language policy, and more. The Handbook of Plurilingual and Intercultural Language Learning is essential reading for students, educators, and researchers in applied linguistics, language teaching and learning, plurilingualism/multilingualism, TESOL, cognitive linguistics, language policy, language acquisition, and intercultural communication.

Culture Learning
Culture Learning

Author: Louise Damen

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13:

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This text explores cross-cultural awareness and intercultural communicative skills from culture-general and culture-specific perspectives. It is appropriate for language teachers, teacher trainers, counsellors, advisors, and other professionals concerned with multi-cultural issues.