Title A Critical Auto/Ethnography of Learning Spanish : Intercultural competence on the gringo trail?

Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (192 pages) Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Becoming interculturally competent in 'Spanishtown'?; What this book is about; Who this book is for; Research methods; Where I've been is where I'm coming from (1984-1994); Notes on terminology; Background information: Guatemala, Peru, Nicaragua; Navigating the text; 2 Theorizing intercultural competence; Yearning for 'windswept and interesting' (1993-1994); Linguacultural competence; Developing intercultural competence in language education?; Researching the inter/cultural; Critical intercultural competence Intercultural competence as it relates to this study3 Research processes and intrigues; On subverting 'the academy'; Contexts; Doing the research; Negotiating access; Autoethnography and ethnography as method; Data analysis; Falling in love with Spanish (1994-1996); 4 Learning Spanish in Latin America; Spanish-language schools: The curriculum; Grammatical competence; Communicative competence; Native speakers and teacher power; Power and purpose in Spanishtown; 5 Discourses of others: Talking about 'them' and 'us'; Students' imaginaries of Latin America Local imaginaries of Spanish-language learnersPortrait of a 'conferencia'; Learning in Lima (1994); 6 Learning from and negotiating with cultural 'others'; Benign 'cultural' content in Spanish classes; Contested 'cultural' content in Spanish classes; Handling intercultural encounters; Powerful/not powerful; Discourses of 'helping' the 'poor'; In Spanish, on the back foot; Learning to be Limeña (1995); 7 Voluntourism: Practicing on the community?; Contesting voluntourism discourses; Medical ethics and discourses of volunteering; Foreign teacher (1995); Checking my privilege 8 Theorizing: Doing and developing intercultural competenceVignettes of crossing cultures (1994-2015); What is intercultural competence?; Doing intercultural competence; Learning to see cultural richness; Teaching culture in Spanish classes; Developing intercultural competence; The Testimonio of Don Carlos; Perceiving power; 9 Revisiting methodology; Going back to Lima (2015); On not being American: My positionality; Ficciones, paradigms, and accessible writing; Reflections on participating in the study; 10 Suggestions and teaching activities; They know more than we do (about many things) The world is unfairDiscourses may be destructive; How to facilitate intercultural competence development; How (and why) to teach culture in Spanish class; Conclusion; References; Index Notes Print version record Subject Intercultural communication -- Latin America Spanish language -- Latin America -- Conversation and phrase books -- English Spanish language -- Spoken Spanish Spanish language -- Self-instruction Communication and culture -- Latin America Language and culture -- Latin America Communication and culture Intercultural communication Language and culture Spanish language Spanish language -- Spoken Spanish Latin America Genre/Form Conversation and phrase books Self-instruction Form Electronic book ISBN 9781317482246 1317482247

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