| Intercultural Learning in Modern Language Education: Expanding Meaning-Making Potentials Contributor(s): Kearney, Erin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1783094664 ISBN-13: 9781783094660 Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Study & Teaching - Education | Multicultural Education - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Psycholinguistics |
| Dewey: 418.007 |
| LCCN: 2015023401 |
| Series: Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.8" W x 8.2" (0.60 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Many educators aim to engage students in deeply meaningful learning in the language classroom, often facing challenges to connect the students with the culture of the language they are learning. This book aims to demonstrate that substantial intercultural learning can and does occur in the modern language classroom, and explores the features of the classroom that support meaningful culture-in-language-learning. The author argues that transformative modern language education is intimately tied to a view of language learning as an engagement in meaning-making activity, or semiotic practice. The empirical evidence presented is analyzed and then linked to both the theorizing of culture-in-language-teaching and to practical concerns of teaching. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kearney, Erin: - Erin Kearney is Assistant Professor of Foreign and Second Language Education at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is interested in cultural dimensions of foreign and second language teaching and learning, as well as language teacher development and education, early foreign language learning and language awareness, and classroom discourse and interaction in L2 settings. |