Byram / Nichols / Stevens Developing Intercultural Competence in Practice

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-1-84769-960-2
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1

Reihe: Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education

It is now widely recognised that learning a language should not just involve linguistic competence but also intercultural competence. It is also clear that intercultural competence can be developed through related subjects such as geography, history, mother tongue teaching. This book takes this as a given and provides practical help for teachers who wish to help their learners acquire intercultural competence in the ordinary classroom. It contains descriptions of lessons and materials from a wide range of classrooms in several countries and for beginners to advanced learners.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Byram, Michael

Nichols, Adam

Stevens, David

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Alison Phipps: Foreword

Michael Byram, Adam Nichols and David Stevens: Introduction

Part 1: In the Classroom

Beginners

1 Carol Morgan: The International Partnership Project

Intermediate

2 Eva Burwitz-Melzer: Teaching Intercultural Communicative Competence through Literature

3 Elena Tarasheva and Leah Davcheva: ‘Up the Hills of Identity’

Advanced

4 Maria Metodieva Genova: Visual Codes and Modes of Presentation of Television News Broadcasts

5 Iskra Georgieva: An Approach to Implementing a Cultural Studies Syllabus

6 Sylvia Duffy and Janet Mayes: ‘Family Life’ and ‘Regional Identity’ – Comparative Studies while Learning French

7 Mary Williams: ‘It Must Be Cultural Because I Don’t Do It’: Cultural Awareness in Initial TESOL Teacher Education

Part 2: Beyond the Classroom

Using New Technologies

8 Lynne Parmenter and Yuichi Tomita: Virtual Intercultural Competence: A Programme for Japanese Elementary School Students

9 Sheila Carel: Students as Virtual Ethnographers: Exploring the Language Culture-Connection

10 Clare Dodd: Working in Tandem: an Anglo-French Project

11 Paul Whittaker: New Tools for Old Tricks: Information and Communication Technology in Teaching British Cultural Studies

In the Field

12 Jane Woodin: Tandem Learning as an Intercultural Activity

13 Judith Parsons and Peter Junge: ‘Why Do Danes Put Their Elderly in Nursing Homes?’ – Working Outside the Classroom with Adult Second Language Learners

Part 3: Developing Resources

14 Leon Aktor and Karen Risager: Cultural Understanding in Danish Schools

15 Tanya Madjarova, Magdalena Botsmanova and Tanya Stamatova: ‘I Thought My Teacher Fancied Me’

16 Krassimira Topuzova: British and Bulgarian Christmas Cards: A Research Project for Students

17 Françoise Vigneron: Study of Landscapes as an Approach to Openness to Others

Further Reading

Index

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.

Michael Byram, Adam Nichols and David Stevens are in teacher education at the University of Durham. They specialise in the teaching of foreign languages (Byram), geography (Nichols) and English as mother tongue (Stevens) and have found a common interest in the ways in which all these subjects involve cultural issues. They have invited authors from throughout Europe and North America to describe their work in the classroom or in producing teaching materials to develop intercultural competence.