Context and culture in language teaching
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Context and culture in language teaching
(Oxford applied linguistics)
Oxford University Press, 1994
2nd impression
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Bibliography: p. [268]-289
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is an attempt to redraw the boundaries of foreign language study. It focuses attention not just on cultural knowledge as a necessary aspect of communicative competence, but as an educational objective in its own right, as an end as well as a means of language learning.
Winner MLA Kenneth W Mildenberger Prize
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- Dubious dichotomies and deceptive symmetries
- The importance of context in language education
- A discourse perspective
- Notes
- 1. Educational challenge
- Of challenges and conditions
- Challenge as action
- Challenge as paradox
- Challenge as dialogue
- Double-voiced discourse
- Dialogic breakthrough
- Notes
- 2. Contexts of speech and social interaction
- What's in a context?
- Discourse and culture
- Contextual shaping
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 3. Teaching the spoken language
- Five case studies
- Problems and paradoxes
- Teaching language as (con)/text
- Notes
- 4. Stories and discourses
- Dimensions of particularity
- Understanding of particularity
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 5. Teaching the literary text
- Current practices
- Defining the reader
- Teaching the narrative
- Teaching poetry
- Post-teaching activities
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 6. Authentic texts and contexts
- What is cultural authenticity?
- The communicative proficiency approach
- The discourse analysis approach
- The challenge of multimedia
- Notes
- 7. Teaching language across the cultural faultline
- Cultural reality and cultural imagination
- C2, C2': reconstructing the C2 context of production and reception
- C1, C1': constructing a context of reception in the learner's native culture
- C1", C2": in the eyes of others
- Of bridges and boundaries
- Notes
- 8. Looking for third places
- A popular culture
- A critical culture
- An ecological culture
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
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