Mediating Languages and Cultures Contributor(s): Buttjes (Author), Buttjes, Dieter (Editor), Byram, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1853590703 ISBN-13: 9781853590702 Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1990 Annotation: 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 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Education | Multicultural Education - Language Arts & Disciplines | Study & Teaching |
Dewey: 370.196 |
LCCN: 89039909 |
Series: Multilingual Matters |
Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.55" W x 8.56" (0.98 lbs) 352 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |