Mediating Languages and Cultures: Towards an Intercultural Theory of Foreign Language Education

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Dieter Buttjes, Michael Byram
Multilingual Matters, 1991 - 333 páginas
The history of "language teaching" is shot through with methods and approaches to language learning - most recently with "communicative language teaching" - 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 interdependent and their teaching and learning should be too. Learning another language is part of a complex process of learning and understanding other people's ways of life, ways of thinking and socio-economic experience
 

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towards an integrated
17
TOWards a Social HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING
31
making
47
TOWARDS A ResearchBASED THEORY OF INTERCULTURAL
101
effects
120
case studies
136
a contrastive
159
Towards a RevisioN OF INTERCULTURAL TEACHING MEDIA
179
the Third World in West
193
converging
209
TOWARDS AN INTERCULTURAL TEACHER EDUCATION
237
a project in
261
foundations and principles
275
towards an intercultural
306
List of Contributors
323
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Michael Byram is Professor Emeritus at Durham University, England. Having studied languages at Cambridge University, he taught French and German in school and adult education and then did teacher education at Durham. He was adviser to the Language Policy Division of the Council of Europe and then on the expert group which produced the Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture. His research has included the education of minorities, foreign language teaching and intercultural competence, and more recently on how the PhD is experienced and assessed in a range of different countries.

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