Cultural Studies In Foreign Language Education
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Author | : Michael Byram |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781853590177 |
Written by the winner of the 1987 BAAL book prize, this book deals with the acquisition of understanding of foreign cultures and peoples. It is also a study of the philosophy and purpose of language teaching in all its facets, in the context of foreign language teaching in secondary education. The book is written for language teachers and, though it draws on disciplines not usually included in their education and professional training, it does so from within the profession's own perspective. It is an attempt to raise teachers' and learners' awareness of the full educational value of foreign language learning
Author | : Michael Byram |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters Limited |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
The main purpose of this book is to help foreign language teachers to reflect upon and investigate their learners' views of the countries and peoples whose language they teach. It presents data from a research project and explains its significance and usefulness for teachers.
Author | : Elda Buonanno Foley |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2016-05-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1443894052 |
The perceived lack of understanding of cultural diversity in the American learning community has led instructors to challenge assumptions and stereotypes while addressing misconceptions. Teachers of foreign languages and cultural studies, in particular, feel the need to redesign curricula and lesson plans to better serve the learning community of the twenty-first century. The common starting point resides in the paradox that exists in today’s connected world; while global access to information makes learners aware of the infinite variety of cultural diversity, it does not, however, make them critical thinkers. For this reason, there is opportunity to reshape critical thinking within a more global perspective, while enhancing the tools to identify, interpret, and compare the different cultural models that learners encounter. The book demonstrates the theories and practical applications by which instructors use contemporary film to provide insightful readings on diverse local communities, communities that form the basis of global culture. This collection of essays will serve as a pedagogical tool and resource, offering methods and examples of a communicative approach to analyze and integrate cultural diversities, similarities, and problems in the second language curricula, methods that expose students to different cultural models while scaffolding their critical approach to multiple layers of common and specific values. This work will encourage a dialogue and long-lasting conversation on methodologies and teaching strategies rethought, reapplied, and remolded to the new learning environments.
Author | : Michael Byram |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781853592119 |
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
Author | : Dieter Buttjes |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781853590702 |
The history of "language teaching" is shot through with methods and approaches to language learning - most recently with "communicative language teaching" - 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. Learning another language is part of a complex process of learning and understanding other people's ways of life, ways of thinking and socio-economic experience
Author | : Wai Meng Chan |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2015-07-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1501502956 |
The teaching of culture and interculturality is today viewed as an integral part of foreign language education. This book presents insights from recent research on the role of culture in second/foreign and heritage language education. It contains 14 chapters including an introductory chapter that discusses diachronically the evolving notion of culture and how the sociocultural view of culture as a complex and dynamic concept informs language teaching and language learning research. The chapters following the introduction are organised in four parts focusing on: 1) the teacher's role in integrated language and culture learning; 2) the interrelationship between culture, identity, and language learning and use; 3) the effect of culture on learner characteristics which impact language learning processes and outcomes; and 4) curriculum development aimed at fostering language and culture learning. The chapters in Parts 1 to 3 present contributions from current research - either in the form of the authors' original studies or comprehensive reviews of relevant essential research - which bears important implications for curricular practice in foreign language and language teacher education. This close link between research, theory and practice is also maintained in the two chapters in Part 4, which present developmental projects based on well-grounded theoretical frameworks.
Author | : Thomas H. Schmidt |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2017-06-23 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1443873810 |
This volume explores how the traditional academic disciplines of linguistics, translation, literature and cultural studies can contribute to, or be integrated into, the teaching of a foreign language by means of innovative methodologies, techniques and instruments. The book begins with a selection of essays on applied linguistics that share some significant findings in the context of second or foreign language acquisition. It then examines the ways in which linguistics, translation theory, literature and cultural studies are brought into the foreign language classroom not just as objects of study but also as vehicles for language-learning. By presenting studies on four main foreign languages, English, Spanish, French and German, the collection offers, to the foreign language profession, an opportunity for the sharing and comparison of strategies across languages at both the secondary and higher education level. The text is a valuable resource for language teachers with a more philologically-oriented background who would like to learn how to apply their research knowledge and experience to the design and implementation of new methodological approaches.
Author | : Dagmar Scheu Lottgen |
Publisher | : EDITUM |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Second language acquisition |
ISBN | : 9788476848067 |
Author | : Karlfried Knapp |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 752 |
Release | : 2009-12-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110214245 |
This volume focuses on how far the policies, principles and practices of foreign language teaching and learning are, or can be, informed by theoretical considerations and empirical findings from the linguistic disciplines. Part I deals with the nature of foreign language learning in general, while Part II explores issues arising from linguistic, socio-political, cultural and cognitive perspectives. Part III and IV then consider the different factors that have to be taken into account in designing the foreign language subject and the various approaches to pedagogy that have been proposed. Part V finally addresses questions concerning assessment of learner proficiency and the evaluation of courses designed to promote it. Key features: provides a state-of-the-art description of different areas in the context of foreign language communication and learning presents a critical appraisal of the relevance of the field offers solutions to everyday language-related problems with contributions from renowned experts
Author | : Susan Bassnett |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2014-02-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136495290 |
British Studies' and 'British Cultural Studies' cover a wide range of facets of contemporary Britain. Studying British Cultures: An Introduction is a unique collection of essays which examine the most significant aspects of this quickly developing area of study, analyzing the ways of teaching and reading British culture. The work covers the contemporary and key issues, including: the terminological distinction between 'British Studies' and 'British Cultural Studies' the problem of national cultures and identities in contemporary Britain studying language and literature from a British Studies perspective models for studying the historical context of the development of ideas of `Britishness' studying contemporary Britain overseas The contributors are some of the key names in current debates surrounding British Studies, and Susan Bassnett holds together their work with a substantial and accessible introduction. Studying British Cultures: An Introduction will be essential reading for students and teachers concerned with the study of contemporary Britain.