Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning

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This research-based survey of teaching and learning practice in intercultural language education explores the full spectrum of methodological issues. Its focus on the intercultural aspects of language teaching and learning is vitally relevant to our increasingly integrated world, reflecting the current consensus that learning languages plays a crucial role in developing our understanding of the rich diversity of human cultures. The text offers trainee and practicing teachers, as well as researchers and graduate students, a ready point of access to the wealth of insight and experience accumulated by the authors over a decade of research. Underpinned by the material generated throughout years of collaboration with working teachers, the work features detailed documentation of teaching practice spanning a multitude of languages. Progressing from a discussion of core theoretical concepts in language, culture, and learning, the book provides detailed assessment of numerous factors related to teaching languages, including classroom interactions, technologies, program evaluation, language assessment, and professional development. It provides a much-needed practical toolkit for teachers preparing to develop language programs in which intercultural understanding has a central role to play. Eschewing prescriptive notions of 'method', the authors advocate a responsive pedagogy that is open to the particularities of context and adapts to the diverse requirements of language learners.
This wide-ranging survey of issues in intercultural language teaching and learning covers everything from core concepts to program evaluation, and advocates a fluid, responsive approach to teaching language that reflects its central role in fostering intercultural understanding. * Includes coverage of theoretical issues defining language, culture, and communication, as well as practice-driven issues such as classroom interactions, technologies, programs, and language assessment * Examines systematically the components of language teaching: language itself, meaning, culture, learning, communicating, and assessments, and puts them in social and cultural context * Features numerous examples throughout, drawn from various languages, international contexts, and frameworks * Incorporates a decade of in-depth research and detailed documentation from the authors' collaborative work with practicing teachers * Provides a much-needed addition to the sparse literature on intercultural aspects of language education

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Anthony J. Liddicoat

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"Indeed, Intercultural Language Teaching and Learningcan be a valuable read for anybody interested in language and cultural diversity and the process that leads to intercultural competency". (The Delta Intercultural Academy, 1 January 2014) "Valuable for those studying linguistics, second-language acquisition, and language teaching. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, professionals." (Choice, 1 December 2013)
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