Culture and foreign language education : insights from research and implications for the practice /
This book offers insights from current research on the role of culture in foreign language learning as well as the construction of culture and identity through language learning and use. It presents original empirical studies and theoretical discussions which bear important implications for curricul...
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De Gruyter,
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Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
Publication Dates: |
[2015] ©2015 |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Studies in Second and Foreign Language Education [SSFLE]; 10. |
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Summary: |
This book offers insights from current research on the role of culture in foreign language learning as well as the construction of culture and identity through language learning and use. It presents original empirical studies and theoretical discussions which bear important implications for curricular practice in language education, as well as accounts of developmental projects for integrated foreign language and culture learning. |
Carrier Form: |
1 online resource(ix, 378 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
ISBN: | 9781501503023 |
Index Number: | HM621 |
CLC: | G05 |
Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Culture and foreign language education: An introduction to the book / 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 / 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 / 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?" / 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. |