Intercultural Learning in Modern Language Education : : Expanding Meaning-Making Potentials / / Erin Kearney.

Many educators aim to engage students in deeply meaningful learning in the language classroom, often facing challenges to connect the students with the culture of the language they are learning. This book aims to demonstrate that substantial intercultural learning can and does occur in the modern la...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. The Challenges of Addressing Culture in Modern Language Education
  • 2. The Culture Learning Target: Engagement with Meaning Potentials
  • 3. Creating and Investigating Intercultural Worlds in a Modern Language Classroom
  • 4. Understanding Signifi cation and Interpretive Acts Through Engagement with Cultural Representations
  • 5. Realizing Meaning Potentials Through Narrative Writing
  • 6. Sense-Making in a Web of Meanings: Implications for Theory, Research and Practice
  • References
  • Index