Mediating Languages and Cultures

Erscheinungsjahr 1991
ISBN: 978-1-85359-070-2
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 486 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buttjes, Dieter

Byram, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Byram, Michael
Michael Byram is Professor Emeritus at Durham University, England. Having studied languages at Cambridge University, he taught French and  German in school and adult education and then did teacher education at Durham. He was adviser to the Language Policy Division of the Council of Europe and then on the expert group which produced the Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture. His research has included the education of minorities, foreign language teaching and intercultural competence, and more recently on how the PhD is experienced and assessed in a range of different countries.