Culture and Foreign Language Education : : Insights from Research and Implications for the Practice / / ed. by Wai Meng Chan, Sunil Kumar Bhatt, Masanori Nagami, Izumi Walker.

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 di...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Studies in Second and Foreign Language Education [SSFLE] , 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (378 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1. Culture and foreign language education: An introduction to the book
  • Part 1. The role of the teacher in integrated language and culture learning
  • Chapter 2. Culture in foreign language learning – The implications for teachers and teacher training
  • Chapter 3. Pre-service teachers discovering intercultural enquiry in language classroom discourse
  • Chapter 4. Exploring the intercultural in Australian community languages teaching
  • Chapter 5. Critical thinking, (inter)cultural awareness and pedagogical dilemmas: Stories of three university teachers in Indonesia
  • Part 2. Culture, identity and language
  • Chapter 6. First, second, third place and beyond: Reflection on a philosophy of Self & Identity for intercultural language teaching
  • Chapter 7. Growing up in Hawai‘i as Japanese heritage language speakers: Language, culture and identity
  • Chapter 8. Identities and languages: Two stories of multilingual development
  • Chapter 9. The construction of cultural difference through negotiating participation: Learning-as-participation in an English-medium college in Japan
  • Part 3. Culture and learner characteristics
  • Chapter 10. Motivational changes and their affecting factors among students from different cultural backgrounds
  • Chapter 11. Significant others in influencing Chinese EFL students’ learning strategy use: From a sociocultural perspective
  • Chapter 12. Cultural learning styles – “Is there such a thing?”
  • Part 4. Curriculum development for language and culture learning
  • Chapter 13. Learning language and culture through video clips: An action research study
  • Chapter 14. Shifting paradigms: A model for the integrated assessment of language and culture
  • Authors and their affiliations
  • Index