Full Description
New Directions for Research in Foreign Language Education brings together contributions by reputed scholars that examine the challenges, opportunities, and benefits of teaching and learning foreign languages. With a particular focus on languages other than English, the book looks at the socio-political dimension of language learning and teaching and the need to re-theorize multilingualism for our age. The volume includes a range of perspectives, from language teaching as an act of reconciliation to language learning across the lifespan, from innovations in assessment and curriculum to critical appraisals of pedagogy and textbook materials. Each chapter presents a clear case study drawn from diverse contexts to illustrate the different concerns of the contributors. The book is a valuable resource for all students, teachers, teacher educators and researchers who share an interest in researching multilingualism and the different facets of teaching and learning foreign languages.
Contents
PART 1: Changing rationales for language study
Navigating precarious territory: Teaching Turkish in Greek-Cypriot classrooms
Panayiota Charalambous, Constadina Charalambous and Ben Rampton
Language learning as opportunity across the life span
Simon Coffey
Foreign language teaching for citizenship development
Mairin Hennebry
PART 2: Foreign language study for global multilingualism
Not English but English-within-multilingualism
Jennifer Jenkins
'Glocal languages': The 'globalness' and the 'localness' of world languages
Manuela Guilherme
L2 learning outside the classroom: new directions for research on intercultural interactions during study abroad
Rachel Shively
PART 3: Critical perspectives in the classroom
French language textbooks as ideologically imbued cultural artefacts: Political economy, neoliberalism and (self) branding
David Block and John Gray
The need for new directions in modern foreign language teaching at English secondary schools
Ursula Wingate and Nick Andon
Developing competence for French as a foreign language within a plurilingual paradigm
Nathalie Auger
PART 4: Innovations in policy and practice
Assessing the diverse linguistic and cultural repertoires of students of diverse languages
Angela Scarino
Embedding the assessment into the learning: a new direction for high-stakes speaking assessments
Martin East
Toward an educational policy for U.S. collegiate foreign language instruction:
Curricular considerations
Heidi Byrnes
Afterword
Claire Kramsch
