Overview

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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Author:   Dieter Buttjes ,  Michael Byram
Publisher:   Channel View Publications Ltd
Imprint:   Multilingual Matters
Volume:   No 60
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9781853590702

ISBN 10:   1853590703
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   01 November 1990
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Mediating languages and cultures; teaching culture and language; culture studies and foreign language teaching after World War II; culture in German foreign language teaching; area studies in the German Democratic Republic; ""Background Studies"" in English foreign language teaching; interculturalizing the French education system; young people's perceptions of other cultures; stereotypes in intercultural communication; developing trancultural competence; culture and ""hidden culture"" in Moscow; cultural reference in European textbooks; presenting distant cultures; world studies and foreign language teaching; relating experience, culture and language; the acquisition of cultural competence; the observation diary; from integrative studies to context theory; intercultural pedagogy; intercultural learning at school; language education across Europe."

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Author Website:   https://www.dur.ac.uk/education/staff/profile/?id=613

Michael Byram is Professor Emeritus at the University of Durham, UK and Guest Professor at the University of Luxembourg.

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Author Website:   https://www.dur.ac.uk/education/staff/profile/?id=613

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