Mediating Languages and Cultures

by Dieter Buttjes (Editor), Michael Byram (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853590702
Publisher:	Multilingual Matters Ltd.
Publication date:	11/01/1990
Series:	Multilingual Matters , #60
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.85(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Michael Byram is Professor Emeritus at Durham University, England. Having studied languages at Cambridge University, he taught French and  German in school and adult education and then did teacher education at Durham. He was adviser to the Language Policy Division of the Council of Europe and then on the expert group which produced the Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture. His research has included the education of minorities, foreign language teaching and intercultural competence, and more recently on how the PhD is experienced and assessed in a range of different countries.

 

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I: TOWARDS AN INTERCULTURAL THEORY OF LANGUAGE EDUCATION
1. Dieter Buttjes: Mediating Languages and Cultures: The Social and Intercultural Dimension Restored
2. Michael Byram: Teaching Culture and Language: Towards an Integrated Model
PART II: TOWARDS A SOCIAL HISTORY OF LANGUAGE TEACHING IN EUROPE
3. Karen Risager: Cultural Studies and Foreign Language Teaching after World War II: The International Debate as Received in the Scandinavian Countries
4. Dieter Buttjes: Culture in German Foreign Language Teaching: Making Use of an Ambiguous Past
5. Dieter Kerl: Area Studies in the German Democratic Republic: Theoretical Aspects of a Discipline in Evolution
6. Michael Byram: 'Background Studies' in English Foreign Language Teaching: Lost Opportunities in the Comprehensive School Debate
7. Francois Mariet: lnterculturalising the French Educational System: Towards a Common European Perspective
PART II: TOWARDS A RESEARCH-BASED THEORY OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
8. Michael Byram, Veronica Esarte-Sarries, Susan Taylor and Patricia Allatt: Young People's Perceptions of Other Cultures: The Role of Foreign Language Teaching
9. Gottfried Keller: Stereotypes in Intercultural Communication: Effects of German- British Pupil Exchanges
10. Meinert Meyer: Developing Transcultural Competence: Case Studies of Advanced Foreign Language Learners
11. Astrid Ertelt-Vieth: Culture and 'Hidden Culture' in Moscow: A Contrastive Analysis of West German and Soviet Perceptions
PART IV: TOWARDS A REVISION OF INTERCULTURAL TEACHING MEDIA
12. Karen Risager: Cultural References in European Textbooks: An Evaluation of Recent Tendencies
13. Angelika Kubanek: Presenting Distant Cultures: The Third World in West German English Language Textbooks
14. Hugh Starkey: World Studies and Foreign Language Teaching: Converging Approaches in Textbook Writing
15. Gisela Baumgratz-Gangl: Relating Experience, Culture and Language: A German- French Video Project for Language Teaching
PART V: TOWARDS AN INTERCULTURAL TEACHER EDUCATION
16. Laurence Kane: The Acquisition of Cultural Competence: An Ethnographic Framework for Cultural Studies Curricula
17. Genevieve Zarate: The Observation Diary: An Ethnographic Approach to Teacher Education
18. Franz Kuna: From Integrative Studies to Context Theory: A Project in Inservice Education
PART VI: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED VIEW OF LANGUAGE LEARNING
19. Michele Borrelli: Intercultural Pedagogy: Foundations and Principles
20. Hagen Kordes: Intercultural Learning at School: Limits and Possibilities
21. John Broadbent and Leonardo Oriolo: Language Education across Europe: Towards an Intercultural Perspective