La didactique plurilingue et pluriculturelle à l’épreuve du terrain éducatif

La didactique plurilingue et pluriculturelle à l’épreuve du terrain éducatif
Author: Martine Derivry-Plard
Publisher: Archives contemporaines
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2014-06-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 2813001686

Après le Précis du Plurilinguisme et du Pluriculturalisme (2008), et en continuité avec les ouvrages Didactique plurilingue et pluriculturelle : l’acteur en contexte mondialisé (2012) et Dispositifs éducatifs en contexte mondialisé et didactique plurilingue et pluriculturelle (2014), le débat didactique se poursuit avec la déconstruction et la reconfiguration des catégories habituelles de l’enseignement et de l’apprentissage des langues et des cultures. De nouvelles notions et des trames inédites ont émergé et se sont tissées. Ce nouvel ouvrage met en relation une réflexion didactique plurilingue et pluriculturelle dans un monde multilingue où se joue un processus de mondialisation multiforme. Par la variété des langues et des approches, en s’appuyant sur des contextes éducatifs et sociaux, l’ouvrage identifie les limites et les perspectives qu’offrent des dispositifs plurilingues et pluriculturels, de l’école à l’université. Il souligne également les tensions et les impacts de la mondialisation sur les contextes plurilingues et pluriculturels d’enseignement. Si les frictions de la mondialisation opposent le paradigme monolingue au paradigme plurilingue, une didactique plurilingue et pluriculturelle pose d’emblée comme principe épistémologique et heuristique la diversité, le multiple et le pluridimensionnel comme cadre d’analyse.

Virtual Exchange for Intercultural Language Learning and Teaching

Virtual Exchange for Intercultural Language Learning and Teaching
Author: Anthippi Potolia
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2022-09-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000655415

This book illustrates new virtual intercultural practices for language learning from primary to tertiary education and highlights the transversality of these practices throughout the language curriculum. The current English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) perspective sets the framework as a possible vector of cultural exchanges in a variety of contexts, and from which the different authors coming from Europe and all over the world present their studies. The book deploys diverse educational exchanges within a wide range of technological tools and with varied approaches to the intercultural dimension in language learning. Through these virtual exchanges, different languages and educational cultures come together to create emerging communities of practice co-constructed for the limited time-space of the collaborative projects. This volume opens a dialogue with researchers from different backgrounds and theoretical and methodological perspectives as technology can no longer be apprehended without its purposeful human and semiotic meanings and, conversely, human and semiotic meanings can no longer be apprehended without Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Going beyond strict polarised views on the technology or humanistic approaches, this book presents a more nuanced, interrelated stance and will appeal to researchers, scholars, post graduate students, and teachers in applied linguistics, language learning and teaching, education, information studies, cultural studies, and intercultural communication.

Native and Non-Native Teachers in English Language Classrooms

Native and Non-Native Teachers in English Language Classrooms
Author: Juan de Dios Martinez Agudo
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2017-05-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1501504142

Despite being highly debated in applied linguistics and L2 teaching literature, the controversial issue of (non)nativeness still remains unresolved. Contemporary critical research has questioned the theoretical foundations of the nativeness paradigm, which still exerts a strong influence in the language teaching profession. Written by well-known researchers and teacher educators from all over the world, both NSs and NNSs, the selected contributions of this volume cover a great variety of aspects related to the professional role and status of both NS and NNS teachers in terms of both perceived differences and professional concerns and challenges. The strongest aspects of this volume are the global perspectives and the implications for future research and teacher education. It is precisely this international perspective which makes this volume illustrative of different realities with a similar objective in mind: the improvement of second language teaching and teacher education. In today's world, being a NS or NNS should not really matter but rather teachers' professional competences. This publication thus provides a forum of reflection and discussion for all L2 educators who need to be aware of how much they might offer to their future students.

Handbook of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism

Handbook of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism
Author: Geneviève Zarate
Publisher: Archives contemporaines
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2011
Genre: Language and culture
ISBN: 2813000396

Built around the concept of linguistic and cultural plurality, this book defines language as an instrument of action and symbolic power. Plurality is conceived here as : a complex array of voices, perspectives and approaches that seeks to preserve the complexity of the multilingual and multicultural enterprise, including language learning and teaching ; a coherent system of relationships among various languages, research traditions and research sites that informs qualitative methods of inquiry into multilingualism and its uses in everyday life ; a view of language as structured sociohistorical object, observable from several simultaneous spatiotemporal standpoints, such as that of daily interactions or that which sustains the symbolic power of institutions. This book is addressed to teacher trainers, young researchers, decision makers, teachers concerned with the role of languages in the evolution of societies and educational systems. It aims to elicit discussion by articulating practices, field observations and analyses based on a multidisciplinary conceptual framework.

Intercultural Competence

Intercultural Competence
Author: Gerhard Neuner
Publisher: Council of Europe
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789287151704

The linguistic integration of adult migrants: from one country to another, from one language to another

The linguistic integration of adult migrants: from one country to another, from one language to another
Author: Council of Europe
Publisher: Council of Europe
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 928717962X

The linguistic integration of migrants affects every aspect of settling in a new country (employment, health, etc.). The aim of this collection of texts is to propose a number of specific measures member states can take to help adult migrants become acquainted with the language of the host country. The main focus is on organising language courses that meet migrants’ real communication needs. It is not enough for authorities simply to consider the technical aspects of such courses, they should also design and conduct them in accordance with the fundamental values of the Council of Europe. A number of issues concerning the linguistic integration of adult migrants are presented here, beginning with the notion of linguistic integration itself. Family reunion, the nature of citizenship and the function of language tests, among others, are dealt with from the point of view of language and language use. Readers are invited to reflect on the type of language competences that need to be acquired as well as an appropriate use of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The collection also sets out approaches and instruments designed to assist in implementing effective policies.

Folk Linguistics

Folk Linguistics
Author: Nancy A. Niedzielski
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2010-12-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110803380

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Critical Language Awareness

Critical Language Awareness
Author: Norman Fairclough
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2014-06-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317898540

The proliferation of language awareness has now led to a need for a reassessment of the nature and functions of language awareness. This accessible collection of essays addresses that need in developing a more rigorous and critical theoretical underpinning for what language awareness is and should do. In particular, it argues that there needs to be a greater awareness of the social and political issues, and the context within which language awareness work is set.

Content and Language Integrated Learning

Content and Language Integrated Learning
Author: Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2009-05-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1847691668

This book contributes to the growth of interest in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), an approach to second/foreign language learning that requires the use of the target language to learn content. Within the framework of European strategies to promote multilingualism, CLIL has begun to be used extensively in a variety of language learning contexts, and at different educational systems and language programmes. This book brings together critical analyses on theoretical and implementation issues of Content and Language Integrated Learning, and empirical studies on the effectiveness of this type of instruction on learners’ language competence. The basic theoretical assumption behind this book is that through successful use of the language to learn content, learners will develop their language proficiency more effectively while they learn the academic content specified in the curricula.