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.


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


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


Intercultural competence and foreign language learning

Intercultural competence and foreign language learning

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  • Author: Adelheid Hu
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9783823364481
  • Category : Communicative competence
  • Languages : de
  • Pages : 294

Interkulturelle Kompetenz gilt in Zeiten der Globalisierung und Migration als eine der wichtigsten Schlüsselkompetenzen für viele Berufszweige und ist ein vorrangiges Ziel im schulischen und universitären Bildungssektor. Insbesonderefür die fremdsprachliche Bildung wird die systematische Förderung interkultureller Kompetenz immer wieder eingefordert.Der vorliegende grenzüberschreitend ausgerichtete Band setzt den Akzent auf die empirische Erforschung interkultureller Lern- und Entwicklungsprozesse und aufdie Frage der Evaluation, und zwar vor allem im Kontext von fremdsprachlichem Lernen. In the current age of globalisation and migration, intercultural competence is one of the most important key competences in many professions and has become a priority aim in school and university education. The demand for a systematic development of intercultural competence is a constant concern in foreign language education in particular.This international volume emphasises the empirical investigation of processes of intercultural learning and development and the issue of assessment with particularreference to the context of foreign language learning.


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


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.


Context and Culture in Language Teaching and Learning (Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education)

Context and Culture in Language Teaching and Learning (Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education)

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  • Author: Dr. Peter Grundy
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781280739316
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
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Culture in Language Learning

Culture in Language Learning

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  • Author: Hanne Leth Andersen
  • Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
  • ISBN: 8771245359
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 155

Classical and modern foreign language studies no longer have a well-defined subject area, and language and culture can no longer be defined according to nations and national identities. New approaches are being developed with theoretical and methodological points of departure in new areas of research: for example, culture studies, anthropology, sociology, pragmatics and conversation analyses. The aim of modern language studies must therefore be redefined, and be more open for variation and diversity, both in culture and communication. The book discusses the relation between language and culture and is a direct result of the conference Culture in Language Learning, organised under the auspices of the Danish Language and Culture Network, which assembles researchers from language disciplines in Denmark. The aim is to examine how culture comes into the actual language code; into the use of language; and not least, into the learning and teaching of language. One of the book's main problematic areas thus concerns the learning and teaching of foreign and second languages in a globalised world where languages play a new role, both for the individual person, by virtue of internationalisation of education and work-life, and for cooperation across national borders. The articles elucidate these problematic points in relation to the historic development of foreign language disciplines, the meeting of language and culture, teaching traditions and language appropriation theories.


Teaching and Learning Culture

Teaching and Learning Culture

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  • Author: Mads Jakob Kirkebæk
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 9462094403
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 178

This book is based on educational research conducted by researchers from the Department of Learning and Philosophy and the Confucius Institute for Innovation and Learning at Aalborg University. Empirically, it reports on different approaches to teaching and learning of culture, including a student-centered task-based problem-based learning (PBL) approach, a digital technology-supported approach and more. It also reports on how, when teaching and learning culture, teachers’ professional identity and the informal teaching and learning environment impact the teaching and learning of culture in different educational settings from primary school to university. A central theme in the book is the power of context. The studies illustrate in multiple ways, and from different angles, that “culture is not taught in a vacuum or learned in isolation”, but may be influenced by many factors both inside and outside the classroom; at the same time, culture also influences the context of the learning. The context may be “invisible” and hide itself as tacit knowledge or embedded values, or it may be very visible and present itself as a fixed curriculum or an established tradition. No matter what forms and shapes the context takes, the studies in this book strongly indicate that it is essential to be aware of the power of context in teaching and learning culture in order to understand it and negotiate it. This book suggests that teachers should not try to limit or avoid contextual influences, but instead, should explore how the context may be integrated into and used constructively in the teaching and learning of culture. This allowance of context in the classroom will allow for teachers, students, subjects and contexts to enter into a dialogue and negotiation of meaning that will enrich each other and achieve the established goal – acquisition of cultural awareness and intercultural understanding.