Mediating Languages and Cultures: Towards an Intercultural Theory of Foreign Language Education: 60 (Multilingual Matters) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853590703 ISBN 13: 9781853590702

Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 1990

Synopsis

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.

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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.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853590703
• ISBN 13: 9781853590702
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Buttjes Dieter, Byram Michael