Sercu Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Competence

An Investigation in 7 Countries of Foreign Language Teachers' Views and Teaching Practices
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-85359-845-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education

This book reports on a study that focused on teachers’ beliefs regarding intercultural competence teaching in foreign language education. It creates new knowledge on the variability, and relative consistency, of today’s foreign language teachers’ views regarding intercultural competence teaching in a number of countries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sercu, Lies

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword/ Preface 1. Teaching foreign languages in an intercultural world Lies Sercu 2. Objectives of foreign language education and culture teaching time Paloma Castro and Lies Sercu 3. Familiarity and contacts with foreign cultures Phyllis Ryan and Lies Sercu 4. Pupils’ culture-and-language learning profile María del Carmen Méndez García and Lies Sercu 5. Culture teaching practices Ewa Bandura and Lies Sercu 6. Culture in foreign language teaching materials Leah Davcheva and Lies Sercu 7. Experiential culture learning activities: school trips and exchange projects Chryssa Laskaridou and Lies Sercu 8. Opinions regarding different facets of intercultural competence teaching Lies Sercu 9. The foreign language and intercultural competence teacher Lies Sercu 10. The future of intercultural competence in foreign language education. Recommendations for professional development, educational policy and research Lies Sercu Appendix 1: Questionnaire/ Appendix 2: Bonferroni multiple comparison test results

Über Autor(innen)

Sercu Lies:
Lies Sercu is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Leuven. Her research interests concern the promotion of intercultural competence through foreign language education as well as SLA vocabulary acquisition from reading and writing texts in a foreign language. She has been involved in the development of language tests and blended learning environments for the professionalisation of language teachers. She has widely published in major international journals on intercultural competence and foreign vocabulary acquisition.The authors of the book are all members of CULTNET, a network of researchers of interculture in foreign language education (http://millennium.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/cultnet). Lies Sercu (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) initiated and coordinated the project on which the book is based. The other project partners were Ewa Bandura (Jagiellonian University, Poland), Paloma Castro (University of Valladolid, Spain), Leah Davcheva (British Council, Bulgaria), Chryssa Laskaridou (Directorate for primary education on Western Thessaloniki, Greece), Ulla Lundgren (Jönköping University, Sweden), María del Carmen Méndez García (University of Jaén, Spain) and Phyllis Ryan (UNAM: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México).