Mediating Languages and Cultures /

Mediating Languages and Cultures / / ed. by Dieter Buttjes, Michael Byram.

The history of"language teaching"is shot through with methods and approaches to language learning - 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 inte...

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MitwirkendeR:
Allait, Patricia,
Baumgratz-Gangl, Gisela,
Borrelli, Michele,
Broadbent, John,
Buttjes, Dieter,
Byram, Michael,
Ertelt-Vieth, Astrid,
Esarte-Sarries, Veronica,
Kane, Laurence,
Keller, Gottfried,
Kerl, Dieter,
Kordes, Hagen,
Kubanek, Angelika,
Kuna, Franz,
Mariet, François,
Meyer, Meinert,
Oriolo, Leonardo,
Risager, Karen,
Starkey, Hugh,
Taylor, Susan,
Zarate, Genevieve,
HerausgeberIn:
Buttjes, Dieter,
Byram, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [1990]
©1990
Year of Publication:1990
Language:English
Series:Multilingual Matters ; 60
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • PART I: TOWARDS AN INTERCULTURAL THEORY OF LANGUAGE EDUCATION
  • 1. Mediating languages and cultures: the social and intercultural dimension restored
  • 2. Teaching culture and language: towards an integrated model
  • PART II: TOWARDS A SOCIAL HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING IN EUROPE
  • Introduction
  • 3. Cultural studies and foreign language teaching after World War II: the international debate as received in the Scandinavian countries
  • 4. Culture in German foreign language teaching: making use of an ambiguous past
  • 5. Area Studies in the German Democratic Republic: theoretical aspects of a discipline in evolution
  • 6. 'Background Studies' in English foreign language teaching: lost opportunities in the comprehensive school debate
  • 7. Interculturalising the French educational system: towards a common European perspective
  • PART III: TOWARDS A RESEARCH-BASED THEORY OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
  • Introduction
  • 8. Young people's perceptions of other cultures: the role of foreign language teaching
  • 9. Stereotypes in intercultural communication: effects of German-British pupil exchanges
  • 10. Developing transcultural competence: case studies of advanced foreign language learners
  • 11. Culture and 'hidden culture' in Moscow: a contrastive analysis of West German and Soviet perceptions
  • PART IV: TOWARDS A REVISION OF INTERCULTURAL TEACHING MEDIA
  • Introduction
  • 12. Cultural references in European textbooks: an evaluation of recent tendencies
  • 13. Presenting distant cultures: the Third World in West German English language textbooks
  • 14. World Studies and foreign language teaching: converging approaches in textbook writing
  • 15. Relating experience, culture and language: a German-French video project for language teaching
  • PART V: TOWARDS AN INTERCULTURAL TEACHER EDUCATION
  • Introduction
  • 16. The acquisition of cultural competence: an ethnographic framework for cultural studies curricula
  • 17. The observation diary: an ethnographic approach to teacher education
  • 18. From integrative studies to context theory: a project in inservice education
  • PART VI: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED VIEW OF LANGUAGE LEARNING
  • Introduction
  • 19. Intercultural pedagogy: foundations and principles
  • 20. Intercultural learning at school: limits and possibilities
  • 21. Language education across Europe: towards an intercultural perspective
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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