Assessing Intercultural Language Learning: The Dependence of Receptive Sociopragmatic Competence and Discourse Competence on Learning Opportunities an Contributor(s): Grotjahn, Rüdiger (Editor), Timpe, Veronika (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631650086 ISBN-13: 9783631650080 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $100.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Education | Bilingual Education - Language Arts & Disciplines | Study & Teaching - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
Dewey: 418.007 |
LCCN: 2013041721 |
Series: Language Testing and Evaluation |
Physical Information: 317 pages |
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Publisher Description: Although Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) has become a key objective in foreign language (FL) education, curricula offer little in how language teachers can promote ICC through language instruction. This book responds to the challenge of how intercultural language learning can be accounted for more profoundly in FL teaching. By means of innovative intercultural assessments, the author investigates the development of three language competences central to ICC in relation to learning opportunities as experienced by German learners of English. Audiovisual media were found to be a major input factor in the development of intercultural language abilities. The book ends with a discussion of how audiovisual media can be implemented in secondary and tertiary FL and teacher education. |