Intercultural Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Contexts

Intercultural Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Contexts

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  • Author: Romanowski, Piotr
  • Publisher: IGI Global
  • ISBN: 1522581294
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 323

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.


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.


Developing Critical Languaculture Pedagogies in Higher Education

Developing Critical Languaculture Pedagogies in Higher Education

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  • Author: Adriana Raquel Díaz
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1783090375
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 299

Despite widespread agreement about the need to develop interculturally competent graduates, there is a lack of agreement about how this goal may be achieved in practice. This is significant as universities around the world, particularly in English-speaking countries, have espoused an interculturally-aware vision for their future graduates and turned to language education, as an inherently intercultural activity, to expose students to a world which is linguistically and culturally different from their own. This book focuses on narrowing the gap between the often conflicting theoretical and practical imperatives faced by language teachers in an internationalised higher education context. It does so by providing comprehensive conceptual discussions of emerging critical intercultural language pedagogies as well as empirical accounts and case studies from the frontline.


Intercultural Learning in Language Education and Beyond

Intercultural Learning in Language Education and Beyond

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  • Author: Troy McConachy
  • Publisher: Channel View Publications
  • ISBN: 1800412622
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 513

This book provides a contemporary and critical examination of the theoretical and pedagogical impact of Michael Byram’s pioneering work on intercultural communicative competence and intercultural citizenship within the field of language education and beyond. The chapters address important theoretical and empirical work on the teaching, learning, and assessment of intercultural learning, and highlight how individual language educators and communities of practice enact intercultural learning in locally appropriate ways. The book offers comprehensive, up-to-date and accessible knowledge for researchers, teachers, teacher-trainers and students.


Higher Education and Second Language Learning

Higher Education and Second Language Learning

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  • Author: Rosario Hernández
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
  • ISBN: 9783034317344
  • Category : Education, Higher
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

In this volume, academics involved in teaching second languages at university level describe how they have embraced the challenges involved in facilitating student learning. It sets out practical ideas which can be implemented in everyday contexts, while ensuring that pedagogical practice is underpinned by the relevant theoretical literature.


Modern Languages

Modern Languages

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  • Author: Alison Phipps
  • Publisher: SAGE
  • ISBN: 9780761974185
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 230

This accessible book is written by teachers of modern languages and tackles the specifics of the discipline while situating it within the literature on teaching Modern Languages in Higher Education.


Researching Intercultural Learning

Researching Intercultural Learning

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  • Author: L. Jin
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137291648
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 287

International perspectives on intercultural learning are presented within a framework of cultures of learning related to education and language learning and use in academic contexts. Intercultural learning involves learners travelling to learn in a place where other cultures of learning are dominant and to which they are usually expected to adapt.


Foreign Language Teaching in Romanian Higher Education

Foreign Language Teaching in Romanian Higher Education

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  • Author: Lucia-Mihaela Grosu-Rădulescu
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319933299
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 334

This volume gathers recent research findings in the field of foreign language (FL) teaching in Romanian higher education dwelling on both methodology and students’ learning outcomes. The book satisfies the need for an up-to-date overview of FL teaching in Romanian universities in the European context as well as from a global international perspective. This book confers visibility to Romanian foreign language scholars’ research and it opens new paths for debate and collaboration worldwide. The scholars included in this volume have extensive expertise in the field of foreign language teaching and research in higher education which is supported by their international recognition as specialists in their specific areas. The contributing authors approach their respective chapters relying on both qualitative and quantitative research. Their experience and conclusions will prove helpful for any foreign language professional working in tertiary education.


Promoting Intercultural Communication Competencies in Higher Education

Promoting Intercultural Communication Competencies in Higher Education

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  • Author: García-Pérez, Grisel María
  • Publisher: IGI Global
  • ISBN: 1522517340
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 361

Any educational environment involves the interaction of diverse groups and individuals. To foster productive and effective communication, it becomes imperative to understand people’s different linguistic and cultural backgrounds, as well as their value systems. Promoting Intercultural Communication Competencies in Higher Education is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly material on the presence of cultural diversity in educational contexts and how to promote effective dialogues in these environments. Highlighting extensive coverage on topics relating to intercultural learning, such as social identity, gender diversity, and formative feedback, this book is ideally designed for academics, upper-level students, educators, professionals, and practitioners seeking pedagogical research on communication between diverse cultural groups.


Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Competence

Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Competence

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  • Author: Lies Sercu
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 9781853598432
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 236

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.