Teachers as mediators in the foreign language classroom / Michelle Kohler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kohler, Michelle, 1974- author.

Series:

Languages for intercultural communication and education ; 27.

Languages for intercultural communication and education ; 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Study and teachers.

Language and languages.

Interlanguage (Language learning).

Intercultural communication--Study and teaching.

Intercultural communication.

Language teachers.

Mentoring.

Physical Description:

vi, 236 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, [2015]

Summary:

Language teachers are key figures in preparing young people for participation in an increasingly multilingual and culturally diverse world, yet little is known about how they go about this in practice. This book uses examples of classroom interaction to reveal how teachers of language act as intercultural mediators and the implications of this for practice To date, there has been little exploration of how teachers mediate language and culture learning from an intercultural perspective, and what underlies their mediation practices in terms of their conceptions of intercultural language teaching and learning. This book offers an account of what teachers are thinking, feeling and doing as they enact an intercultural perspective on language teaching and learning. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Understandings of Language and Culture in Language Teaching and Learning 17

Language, Culture and Their Relationship 17

Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning 26

2 Teachers' Understandings of Language and Culture and Their Relationship 39

Collette's Understandings of Language and Culture in Language Teaching 39

Kelly's Understandings of Language and Culture in Language Teaching 63

Maria's Understandings of Language and Culture in Language Teaching 95

Conclusion 126

3 Understandings of Mediation 129

Mediation From a Language Teaching and Learning Perspective 129

Mediation From a Sociocultural Learning Theory Perspective 132

An Understanding of Mediation for Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning 142

4 Teachers' Ways of Mediating 145

Collette's Ways of Mediating 145

Kelly's Ways of Mediating 156

Maria's Ways of Mediating 168

Connections Between Teachers' Conceptions and Ways of Mediating 185

Conclusion 190

5 Understanding Language Teachers as Mediators and the Implications for Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning 193

Revisiting the Concept of Mediation 193

Implications for Language Teacher Education 196

Reflections on the Experience and Directions for Further Research 196

Continuing the Dialogue 198.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783093069

1783093064

9781783093052

1783093056

OCLC:

889931491