Liddicoat / Scarino Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-48210-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, E-Book

This wide-ranging survey of issues in intercultural languageteaching and learning covers everything from core concepts toprogram evaluation, and advocates a fluid, responsive approach toteaching language that reflects its central role in fosteringintercultural understanding.
* Includes coverage of theoretical issues defining language,culture, and communication, as well as practice-driven issues suchas classroom interactions, technologies, programs, and languageassessment
* Examines systematically the components of language teaching:language itself, meaning, culture, learning, communicating, andassessments, and puts them in social and cultural context
* Features numerous examples throughout, drawn from variouslanguages, international contexts, and frameworks
* Incorporates a decade of in-depth research and detaileddocumentation from the authors' collaborative work withpracticing teachers
* Provides a much-needed addition to the sparse literature onintercultural aspects of language education

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liddicoat, Anthony J.

Scarino, Angela

Über Autor(innen)

Anthony J. Liddicoat is Professor in Applied Linguistics at the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures in the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages at the University of South Australia.
Angela Scarino is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics and Director of the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures at the University of South Australia.