Roberts / Byram / Barro Language Learners as Ethnographers

1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-1-85359-681-0
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 16, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Modern Language in Practice

This book looks at the role of cultural studies and intercultural communication in language learning. The book argues that learners who have an opportunity to stay in the target language country can be trained to do an ethnographic project while abroad. Borrowing from anthropologists' the idea of cultural fieldwork and 'writing culture', language learners develop their linguistic and cultural competence through the study of a local group. This book combines a theoretical overview of language and cultural practices with a description of ethnographic approaches and materials specifically designed for language learners.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roberts, Celia

Byram, Michael

Barro, Ana

Jordan, Shirley

Street, Brian V

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Language Learning and Ethnography: Theory and Practice

1 New Goals

2 Introducing Cultural Learning into the Language Curriculum

3 Theoretical Issues in Language and Cultural Practices

4 Representations, Discourses and Practices

5 Ethnography for Linguists

Part II The Ealing Ethnography Project: A Case Study

6 Teaching Ethnography

7 Developing the Principles for an Ethnography Course

8 The Ethnography Class

9 The Student Ethnography Projects

10 ‘The Year Abroad’: An Ethnographic Experience

11 Conclusions and New Perspectives

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Street, Brian V
Brian V Street is Emeritus Professor of Language in Education at King's College, London University and Visiting Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. He has a commitment to linking ethnographic-style research on the cultural dimension of language and literacy with contemporary practice in education and in development. Over the past 25 years he has undertaken anthropological field research and been consultant to projects in these fields in countries of both the North and South (e.g. Nepal, S. Africa, India, USA, UK). He has published 18 books and 120 scholarly papers.

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.

Celia Roberts is a Senior Research Fellow at King's College, London,  Michael Byram is Professor of Education at the Durham University,  Ana Barro is at University of Passau, Germany,  Shirley Jordan is a Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and Brian Street is Professor of Language Education, King's College, London.