Context and Culture in Language Teaching

Context and Culture in Language Teaching

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  • Author: Claire Kramsch
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 9780194371872
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 308

"This book takes cultural knowledge in language learning not only as a necessary aspect of communicative competence, but as an educational objective in its own right. If the aim of foreign language education is to foster cross-cultural awareness and self-realization, language pedagogy needs to come to grips with a range of fundamental issues: what do we mean by cultural context? Can discourse practices be taught like rules of grammar? What role does literature play in the development of second language literacy? How can learners acquire both an insider's and an outsider's understanding of the foreign culture as expressed through its language? By exploring these and other issues, the book can help language teachers reflect on their profession and place it within its larger societal and educational context. In turn, they can help learners become not only skilful users of the language, but also active architects of a new cross-cultural world order.".


Context and Culture in Language Teaching and Learning

Context and Culture in Language Teaching and Learning

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  • Author: Michael Byram
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 9781853596575
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 116

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.


The Culture of Language Education. Foreign Language Teaching in Diverse Instructional Contexts

The Culture of Language Education. Foreign Language Teaching in Diverse Instructional Contexts

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  • Author: Jaroslaw Krajka
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
  • ISBN: 9783631808221
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 316


Teaching-and-learning Language-and-culture

Teaching-and-learning Language-and-culture

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  • Author: Michael Byram
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 9781853592119
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 236

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


Teaching of Culture in English as an International Language

Teaching of Culture in English as an International Language

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  • Author: Shen Chen
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1351027166
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 146

The importance of integrating the teaching and learning of language and culture has been widely recognised and emphasized. However, how to teach English as an International Language (EIL) and cultures in an integrative way in non-native English speaking countries remains problematic and has largely failed to enable language learners to meet local and global communication demands. Developing students’ intercultural competence is one of the key missions of teaching cultures. This book examines a range of well-established models and paradigms from both English-speaking and non-English speaking countries. Exploring questions of why, what, and how to best teach cultures, the authors propose an integrated model to suit non-native English contexts in the Asia Pacific. The chapters deal with other critical issues such as the relationship between language and power, the importance of power relations in communication, the relationship between teaching cultures and national interests, and balancing tradition and change in the era of globalisation. The book will be valuable to academics and students of foreign language education, particularly those teaching English as an international language in non-native English countries.


Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning

Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning

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  • Author: Anthony J. Liddicoat
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 1118482107
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 208

This wide-ranging survey of issues in intercultural languageteaching and learning covers everything from core concepts toprogram evaluation, and advocates a fluid, responsive approach toteaching language that reflects its central role in fosteringintercultural understanding. Includes coverage of theoretical issues defining language,culture, and communication, as well as practice-driven issues suchas classroom interactions, technologies, programs, and languageassessment Examines systematically the components of language teaching:language itself, meaning, culture, learning, communicating, andassessments, and puts them in social and cultural context Features numerous examples throughout, drawn from variouslanguages, international contexts, and frameworks Incorporates a decade of in-depth research and detaileddocumentation from the authors’ collaborative work withpracticing teachers Provides a much-needed addition to the sparse literature onintercultural aspects of language education


Context and Culture in Language Teaching

Context and Culture in Language Teaching

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  • Author: C. Kramsch
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  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 295


English Language Teaching in Its Social Context

English Language Teaching in Its Social Context

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  • Author: Christopher Candlin
  • Publisher: Psychology Press
  • ISBN: 9780415241212
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 366

This text includes a selection of commissioned and classic articles that introduce a range of theories of second language acquisition and the contested explanations of effective language learning.


Language Teachers, Politics and Cultures

Language Teachers, Politics and Cultures

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  • Author: Michael Byram
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 9781853594410
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 220

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.


Understanding Language Classroom Contexts

Understanding Language Classroom Contexts

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  • Author: Martin Wedell
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1441102450
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 249

Arguably the whole point of education is to effect change in what people know and are able to do. Globalization has contributed to a common perception worldwide of the need to introduce changes to the teaching and learning of languages. The success of many attempts to do so has been limited by insufficient consideration of implementation contexts. Understanding Language Classroom Contexts explores and illustrates how what happens in any (language) classroom is influenced by (and can be an influence on) the contexts in which it is situated. A clear understanding of these influences is thus the starting point for planning effective change. The book considers many visible and invisible features of the multiple layers of any context, and provides a framework for understanding the types of factors that may influence whether changes (planned by a teacher or externally initiated) are likely to be successful. The book will help teachers (and educational managers or change planners outside the classroom) to understand why their classrooms are as they are and so to make informed decisions about what can or cannot (or not easily) be changed, and suggests how any changes might be appropriately managed.