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Title Culture and foreign language education : insights from research and implications for the practice / edited by Wai Meng Chan, Sunil Kumar Bhatt, Masanori Nagami, Izumi Walker
Published Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 378 pages)
Series Studies in second and foreign language education, 2192-0982 ; 10
Studies in second and foreign language education ; 10
Contents Preface; Contents; Chapter 1. Culture and foreign language education: An introduction to the book; Part 1. The role of the teacher in integrated language and culture learning; Chapter 2. Culture in foreign language learning -- The implications for teachers and teacher training; Chapter 3. Pre-service teachers discovering intercultural enquiry in language classroom discourse; Chapter 4. Exploring the intercultural in Australian community languages teaching; Chapter 5. Critical thinking, (inter)cultural awareness and pedagogical dilemmas: Stories of three university teachers in Indonesia
Chapter 10. Motivational changes and their affecting factors among students from different cultural backgroundsChapter 11. Significant others in influencing Chinese EFL students' learning strategy use: From a sociocultural perspective; Chapter 12. Cultural learning styles -- "Is there such a thing?"; Part 4. Curriculum development for language and culture learning; Chapter 13. Learning language and culture through video clips: An action research study; Chapter 14. Shifting paradigms: A model for the integrated assessment of language and culture; Authors and their affiliations; Index
Part 2. Culture, identity and languageChapter 6. First, second, third place and beyond: Reflection on a philosophy of Self & Identity for intercultural language teaching; Chapter 7. Growing up in Hawai'i as Japanese heritage language speakers: Language, culture and identity; Chapter 8. Identities and languages: Two stories of multilingual development; Chapter 9. The construction of cultural difference through negotiating participation: Learning-as-participation in an English-medium college in Japan; Part 3. Culture and learner characteristics
Summary This book offers insights from current research on the role of culture in foreign language learning as well as the construction of culture and identity through language learning and use. It presents original empirical studies and theoretical discussions which bear important implications for curricular practice in language education, as well as accounts of developmental projects for integrated foreign language and culture learning
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Also available online
Subject Intercultural communication.
Language and culture -- Study and teaching.
Language and languages -- Study and teaching.
Second language acquisition -- Social aspects.
Form Electronic book
Author Bhatt, Sunil, editor
Chan, Wai Meng, 1962- editor
Nagami, Masanori, 1974- editor
Walker, Izumi, editor
ISBN 1501503022
1501503030
1501510940 (hbk.)
9781501503023
9781501503030
9781501510946 (hbk.)
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