Mediating languages and cultures : towards an intercultural theory of foreign language education / edited by Dieter Buttjes and Michael Byram

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buttjes, Dieter, Author.

Contributor:

Buttjes, Dieter.

Byram, Michael.

Series:

Multilingual matters (Series) ; 60.

Multilingual matters ; 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kripalvanandji, Swami, 1913-1981.

Kripalvanandji.

Physical Description:

VII, 333 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clevedon, Avon, England ; Philadelphia : Multilingual Matters, c1991.

Summary:

The history of "language teaching" is shot through with methods and approaches to language learning - 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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

PART I: TOWARDS AN INTERCULTURAL THEORY OF LANGUAGE EDUCATION

1. Mediating languages and cultures: the social and intercultural dimension restored

2. Teaching culture and language: towards an integrated model

PART II: TOWARDS A SOCIAL HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING IN EUROPE

Introduction

3. Cultural studies and foreign language teaching after World War II: the international debate as received in the Scandinavian countries

4. Culture in German foreign language teaching: making use of an ambiguous past

5. Area Studies in the German Democratic Republic: theoretical aspects of a discipline in evolution

6. 'Background Studies' in English foreign language teaching: lost opportunities in the comprehensive school debate

7. Interculturalising the French educational system: towards a common European perspective

PART III: TOWARDS A RESEARCH-BASED THEORY OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

8. Young people's perceptions of other cultures: the role of foreign language teaching

9. Stereotypes in intercultural communication: effects of German-British pupil exchanges

10. Developing transcultural competence: case studies of advanced foreign language learners

11. Culture and 'hidden culture' in Moscow: a contrastive analysis of West German and Soviet perceptions

PART IV: TOWARDS A REVISION OF INTERCULTURAL TEACHING MEDIA

12. Cultural references in European textbooks: an evaluation of recent tendencies

13. Presenting distant cultures: the Third World in West German English language textbooks

14. World Studies and foreign language teaching: converging approaches in textbook writing

15. Relating experience, culture and language: a German-French video project for language teaching

PART V: TOWARDS AN INTERCULTURAL TEACHER EDUCATION.

Introduction

16. The acquisition of cultural competence: an ethnographic framework for cultural studies curricula

17. The observation diary: an ethnographic approach to teacher education

18. From integrative studies to context theory: a project in inservice education

PART VI: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED VIEW OF LANGUAGE LEARNING

19. Intercultural pedagogy: foundations and principles

20. Intercultural learning at school: limits and possibilities

21. Language education across Europe: towards an intercultural perspective

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

This volume originated from a symposium organized by the editors in 1986, held in Durham, England.

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ISBN:

0-585-26999-8

OCLC:

1535415182