Mediating Languages and Cultures
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Mediating Languages and Cultures

  1. 344 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Mediating Languages and Cultures

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Mediating Languages and Cultures by Dieter Buttjes,Michael Byram in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Multicultural Education. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. PART I: TOWARDS AN INTERCULTURAL THEORY OF LANGUAGE EDUCATION
  5. 1. Mediating languages and cultures: the social and intercultural dimension restored
  6. 2. Teaching culture and language: towards an integrated model
  7. PART II: TOWARDS A SOCIAL HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING IN EUROPE
  8. Introduction
  9. 3. Cultural studies and foreign language teaching after World War II: the international debate as received in the Scandinavian countries
  10. 4. Culture in German foreign language teaching: making use of an ambiguous past
  11. 5. Area Studies in the German Democratic Republic: theoretical aspects of a discipline in evolution
  12. 6. 'Background Studies' in English foreign language teaching: lost opportunities in the comprehensive school debate
  13. 7. Interculturalising the French educational system: towards a common European perspective
  14. PART III: TOWARDS A RESEARCH-BASED THEORY OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
  15. Introduction
  16. 8. Young people's perceptions of other cultures: the role of foreign language teaching
  17. 9. Stereotypes in intercultural communication: effects of German-British pupil exchanges
  18. 10. Developing transcultural competence: case studies of advanced foreign language learners
  19. 11. Culture and 'hidden culture' in Moscow: a contrastive analysis of West German and Soviet perceptions
  20. PART IV: TOWARDS A REVISION OF INTERCULTURAL TEACHING MEDIA
  21. Introduction
  22. 12. Cultural references in European textbooks: an evaluation of recent tendencies
  23. 13. Presenting distant cultures: the Third World in West German English language textbooks
  24. 14. World Studies and foreign language teaching: converging approaches in textbook writing
  25. 15. Relating experience, culture and language: a German-French video project for language teaching
  26. PART V: TOWARDS AN INTERCULTURAL TEACHER EDUCATION
  27. Introduction
  28. 16. The acquisition of cultural competence: an ethnographic framework for cultural studies curricula
  29. 17. The observation diary: an ethnographic approach to teacher education
  30. 18. From integrative studies to context theory: a project in inservice education
  31. PART VI: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED VIEW OF LANGUAGE LEARNING
  32. Introduction
  33. 19. Intercultural pedagogy: foundations and principles
  34. 20. Intercultural learning at school: limits and possibilities
  35. 21. Language education across Europe: towards an intercultural perspective
  36. List of Contributors
  37. Index