Full Description
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.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I: TOWARDS AN INTERCULTURAL THEORY OF LANGUAGE EDUCATION
1. Dieter Buttjes: Mediating Languages and Cultures: The Social and Intercultural Dimension Restored
2. Michael Byram: Teaching Culture and Language: Towards an Integrated Model
PART II: TOWARDS A SOCIAL HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING IN EUROPE
3. Karen Risager: Cultural Studies and Foreign Language Teaching after World War II: The International Debate as Received in the Scandinavian Countries
4. Dieter Buttjes: Culture in German Foreign Language Teaching: Making Use of an Ambiguous Past
5. Dieter Kerl: Area Studies in the German Democratic Republic: Theoretical Aspects of a Discipline in Evolution
6. Michael Byram: 'Background Studies' in English Foreign Language Teaching: Lost Opportunities in the Comprehensive School Debate
7. Francois Mariet: lnterculturalising the French Educational System: Towards a Common European Perspective
PART II: TOWARDS A RESEARCH-BASED THEORY OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
8. Michael Byram, Veronica Esarte-Sarries, Susan Taylor and Patricia Allatt: Young People's Perceptions of Other Cultures: The Role of Foreign Language Teaching
9. Gottfried Keller: Stereotypes in Intercultural Communication: Effects of German- British Pupil Exchanges
10. Meinert Meyer: Developing Transcultural Competence: Case Studies of Advanced Foreign Language Learners
11. Astrid Ertelt-Vieth: Culture and 'Hidden Culture' in Moscow: A Contrastive Analysis of West German and Soviet Perceptions
PART IV: TOWARDS A REVISION OF INTERCULTURAL TEACHING MEDIA
12. Karen Risager: Cultural References in European Textbooks: An Evaluation of Recent Tendencies
13. Angelika Kubanek: Presenting Distant Cultures: The Third World in West German English Language Textbooks
14. Hugh Starkey: World Studies and Foreign Language Teaching: Converging Approaches in Textbook Writing
15. Gisela Baumgratz-Gangl: Relating Experience, Culture and Language: A German- French Video Project for Language Teaching
PART V: TOWARDS AN INTERCULTURAL TEACHER EDUCATION
16. Laurence Kane: The Acquisition of Cultural Competence: An Ethnographic Framework for Cultural Studies Curricula
17. Genevieve Zarate: The Observation Diary: An Ethnographic Approach to Teacher Education
18. Franz Kuna: From Integrative Studies to Context Theory: A Project in Inservice Education
PART VI: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED VIEW OF LANGUAGE LEARNING
19. Michele Borrelli: Intercultural Pedagogy: Foundations and Principles
20. Hagen Kordes: Intercultural Learning at School: Limits and Possibilities
21. John Broadbent and Leonardo Oriolo: Language Education across Europe: Towards an Intercultural Perspective
