Intercultural Experience and Education / / ed. by Geof Alred, Michael Byram, Mike Fleming.

This edited volume explores the educational significance of intercultural experience. It offers a broader conception of interculturality than commonly found in the area of foreign language teaching. Contributors represent a diverse range of academic and professional interests. The aim of the book is...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2002]
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Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Series Editors’ Preface
  • Contributors’ Biographical Notes
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Becoming a ‘Better Stranger’: A Therapeutic Perspective on Intercultural Experience and/as Education
  • Chapter 3. For a Flexible Model of Intercultural Understanding
  • Chapter 4. On Being ‘Bicultural’ and ‘Intercultural’
  • Chapter 5. Learning To Be Intercultural
  • Chapter 6. Intercultural Experience and Drama
  • Chapter 7. An Experience of Interculturality: Student Travellers Abroad
  • Chapter 8. Ethnography and Cultural Practice: Ways of Learning During Residence Abroad
  • Chapter 9. Searching for the Intercultural Person
  • Chapter 10. Changing the Focus: A Discussion of the Dynamics of the Intercultural Experience
  • Chapter 11. English for the English: An Intercultural Approach
  • Chapter 12. A Framework for Teaching and Learning ‘Intercultural Competence’
  • Chapter 13. The Recognition of Intercultural Competences: From Individual Experience to Certification
  • Afterword: What Does it Mean to be Intercultural?
  • Index