Bridging Languages And Cultures

Author : Guntars Dreijers,Agnese Dubova,Jānis Veckrācis
Publisher : Frank & Timme GmbH
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783732904297

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Bridging Languages and Cultures by Guntars Dreijers,Agnese Dubova,Jānis Veckrācis Pdf

Translation Studies already face new tasks in order to take account of and to discuss the changing translation environment, in order to seek new approaches and tools for description, analysis and teaching activities. This volume of selected papers of the conference Bridging Languages and Cultures brings together current viewpoints in Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication; it provides both specific focus on certain aspects and developments and a more general overview of research landscape. Distinguished authors discuss translation of LSP texts, lexicological and lexicographic modules of bridging history and methodology of Translation Studies, aesthetic and interactional aspects of translation, and intercultural phenomena in the context of translation.

Author : Inmaculada M. García-Sánchez,Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429943775

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Language and Cultural Practices in Communities and Schools by Inmaculada M. García-Sánchez,Marjorie Faulstich Orellana Pdf

Drawing on sociocultural theories of learning, this book examines how the everyday language practices and cultural funds of knowledge of youth from non-dominant or minoritized groups can be used as centerpoints for classroom learning in ways that help all students both to sustain and expand their cultural and linguistic repertoires while developing skills that are valued in formal schooling. Bringing together a group of ethnographically grounded scholars working in diverse local contexts, this volume identifies how these language practices and cultural funds of knowledge can be used as generative points of continuity and productively expanded on in schools for successful and inclusive learning. Ideal for students and researchers in teaching, learning, language education, literacy, and multicultural education, as well as teachers at all stages of their career, this book contributes to research on culturally and linguistically sustaining practices by offering original teaching methods and a range of ways of connecting cultural competencies to learning across subject matters and disciplines.

Author : Guntars Dreijers,Jānis Sīlis,Silga Sviķe,Jānis Veckrācis
Publisher : Frank & Timme GmbH
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783732907052

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Bridging Languages and Cultures II – Linguistics, Translation Studies and Intercultural Communication by Guntars Dreijers,Jānis Sīlis,Silga Sviķe,Jānis Veckrācis Pdf

Translation Studies are facing new tasks to take account of and to discuss the changing translation environment with new approaches and new tools for description, analysis, and teaching activities. Bridging Languages and Cultures II combines current viewpoints in Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication. The volume provides both specific foci on certain aspects and developments, and a more general overview of research landscape in Latvia, and internationally. The authors discuss translation of Language for Special Purposes (LSP) and literary texts, various interdisciplinary linguistic modules by bridging history and methodology of Translation Studies, aesthetic, and interactional aspects of translation, as well as intercultural phenomena in the context of translation and linguistics.

Author : Guntars Dreijers,Janis Silis,Silga Svike,Jānis Veckrācis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Language and culture
ISBN : 373299273X

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Bridging Languages and Cultures II – Linguistics, Translation Studies and Intercultural Communication by Guntars Dreijers,Janis Silis,Silga Svike,Jānis Veckrācis Pdf

Author : Huertas-Abril, Cristina-Aránzazu,Gómez-Parra, María Elena
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781799812210

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International Approaches to Bridging the Language Gap by Huertas-Abril, Cristina-Aránzazu,Gómez-Parra, María Elena Pdf

In the age of information, an essential priority in the context of international education is the development of language learning and its inconsistencies. The gap between language and education has intermittently grown through time, with mistaken assumptions about how linguistic shortcomings are being solved around the world. Research on comparative educational approaches to teaching verbiage and the foundation of future language development are instrumental in positively impacting the global narrative of dialectal education. International Approaches to Bridging the Language Gap is a collection of innovative research on the methods and applications of second language teaching as well as social developments regarding intercultural learning. While highlighting topics including curricular approaches, digital competence, and linguistic disparities, this book is ideally designed for language instructors, linguists, teachers, researchers, public administrators, cultural centers, policymakers, government officials, academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on the latest advancements of multilingual education.

Author : Glen Aikenhead,Herman Michell
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Cross-cultural studies
ISBN : 0132105578

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Bridging Cultures by Glen Aikenhead,Herman Michell Pdf

Grade level: 9, 10, 11, 12, i, s.

Author : Durk Gorter,Victoria Zenotz,Jasone Cenoz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400773172

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Minority Languages and Multilingual Education by Durk Gorter,Victoria Zenotz,Jasone Cenoz Pdf

​This book presents research on the situation minority language schoolchildren face when they need to learn languages of international communication, in particular English. The book takes minority languages as a starting point and it bridges local and global perspectives in the analysis of multilingual education contexts. It examines the interaction of minority languages and cultures, majority languages and lingua franca-s in a variety of settings across different regions and countries on all continents. Even though all chapters in this book involve minority languages, the issues discussed are relevant to any context in which more than language is used in education. The book reveals challenges and opportunities of multilingual education by discussing issues such as Northern and Southern concepts, language education policies, language diversity, interethnic understanding, multimodal language practices, power, conflict, identity and prestige, among many others. “This is the volume that finally accounts for multilingual education from a truly multilingual perspective by involving proposals and research from a variety of multilingual speech communities in the world. The (linguistically) rich Ethiopia and Mexico can teach the poor Europe and other Northern countries about multilingual education. CLIL promoters may learn from Finnish Sámi and Canadian Innu and Mi’gmaq indigenous communities as well as from Basque results. Speakers and teachers of minority and international languages will certainly be glad to hear the news. There is no need for a monolingual bias or tunnel vision in acquiring English in non-English speaking communities. This volume includes new challenging pedagogical perspectives while pointing to interesting conclusions for worldwide educational authorities”. Maria Pilar Safont Jordà, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, Spain

Author : Xianlin Song,Kate Cadman
Publisher : University of Adelaide Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781922064318

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Bridging Transcultural Divides by Xianlin Song,Kate Cadman Pdf

"The impressive and stimulating essays in Bridging Transcultural Divides deal with the cultural and educational issues in the Australian context. (...) The books central message is that education for Asian students in Australia, and more broadly in the West, can no longer been seen as a one-way transfer of knowledge, but must be understood as a process of reciprocal learning in which both teachers and students are changed by the experience." - Prof. Tim Wright, University of Sheffield.

Author : Paula Garrett-Rucks
Publisher : IAP
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781681234199

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Intercultural Competence in Instructed Language Learning by Paula Garrett-Rucks Pdf

There is pressure on world language educators to prepare learners with 21st century skills to meet the challenges of an increasingly interconnected globalized world. The need for change was summarized in the 2007 report of the MLA Ad Hoc Committee on Foreign Languages that suggested the implementation of curricular reform by developing students’ “translingual and transcultural competence” (p. 3) which allows someone “to operate between languages” (p.237). However, the integration of such a meaningful cultural component in instructed language learning is a complex topic. This book recognizes the difficulty world language educators face to achieve the goals of the MLA report, particularly at beginning levels of instruction in target language use classrooms. Accordingly, this book informs instructed language learning and teaching by bridging developmental theories from the fields of intercultural competence with second language pedagogies—particularly communicative language teaching (CLT) and literacy-based approaches—providing examples of practical applications inside the classroom and beyond. It is intended to support the many FL educators who have consistently reported that they are struggling to incorporate meaningful cultural instruction into their practice (Fox & Diaz-Greenberg 2006; Phillips & Abbott, 2011; Sercu, 2005). This book provides a framework to foster learners’ deep cultural reflection at beginning levels of instruction while preserving target language use policies, bridging CLT pedagogies to intercultural communicative competence (ICC) literacy-based approaches. It starts by synthesizing prominent definitions of culture and culture learning models and then summarizes disparate sources of research findings on culture learning projects (which primarily take place at advanced levels of language learning) to the Standards-based classroom at all levels of instruction, K-16. Although research on fostering learners’ intercultural competence at beginning levels of language instruction is in its infancy, it is of utmost concern given that the vast majority of U.S. language learners rarely continue to advanced levels of instruction (Zimmer-Lowe, 2008). In addition, this book challenges FL educators to advocate for their FL programs and to give greater visibility and credibility to the profession in institutional internationalization efforts. The theoretical components of this book deconstruct the connections between language, thought and culture and problematize developmental models in the IC field that neglect to consider the important role of language. This book provides K-16 FL educators with the discourse needed to 1) explain to administrators, parents and students how world language study prepares learners to compete in an increasingly global market beyond the learner’s development of linguistic proficiency and 2) convince administrators of the value in and the need for world language study in order to support institutional internationalization efforts. The last chapter of this book provides guidance and suggestions on ways to expand K-12 teacher preparation programs and continuing education training to foster learners’ intercultural communicative competence while preserv-ing a Standards-based curriculum. In sum, this book is intended to 1) support all K-16 world language educa-tors with their program advocacy and instruction; 2) serve as a reference manual or course book in teacher preparation programs; 3) serve as a reference manual or course book for research and graduate courses on the teaching and learning of languages.

Author : Valérie Guérin
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783961101412

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Bridging constructions by Valérie Guérin Pdf

Many descriptive grammars report the use of a linguistic pattern at the interface between discourse and syntax which is known generally as tail-head linkage. This volume takes an unprecedented look at this type of linkage across languages and shows that there exist three distinct variants, all subsumed under the hypernym bridging constructions. The chapters highlight the defining features of these constructions in the grammar and their functional properties in discourse. The volume reveals that: Bridging constructions consist of two clauses: a reference clause and a bridging clause. Across languages, bridging clauses can be subordinated clauses, reduced main clauses, or main clauses with continuation prosody.Bridging constructions have three variants: recapitulative linkage, summary linkage and mixed linkage. They differ in the formal makeup of the bridging clause.In discourse, the functions that bridging constructions fulfil depend on the text genres in which they appear and their position in the text.If a language uses more than one type of bridging construction, then each type has a distinct discourse function.Bridging constructions can be optional and purely stylistic or mandatory and serve a grammatical purpose.Although the difference between bridging constructions and clause repetition can be subtle, they maintain their own distinctive characteristics.

Author : Joyce Merrill Valdes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 7506210592

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Culture Bound by Joyce Merrill Valdes Pdf

Author : Elise Trumbull,Carrie Rothstein-Fisch,Patricia M. Greenfield,Blanca Quiroz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135660475

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Bridging Cultures Between Home and School by Elise Trumbull,Carrie Rothstein-Fisch,Patricia M. Greenfield,Blanca Quiroz Pdf

Bridging Cultures Between Home and School: A Guide for Teachers is intended to stimulate broad thinking about how to meet the challenges of education in a pluralistic society. It is a powerful resource for in-service and preservice multicultural education and professional development. The Guide presents a framework for understanding differences and conflicts that arise in situations where school culture is more individualistic than the value system of the home. It shares what researchers and teachers of the Bridging Cultures Project have learned from the experimentation of teacher-researchers in their own classrooms of largely immigrant Latino students and explores other research on promoting improved home-school relationships across cultures. The framework leads to specific suggestions for supporting teachers to cross-cultural communication; organization parent-teacher conferences that work; use strategies that increase parent involvement in schooling; increase their skills as researchers; and employ ethnographic techniques to learn about home cultures. Although the research underlying the Bridging Cultures Project and this Guide focuses on immigrant Latino families, since this is the primary population with which the framework was originally used, it is a potent tool for learning about other cultures as well because many face similar discrepancies between their own more collectivistic approaches to childrearing and schooling and the more individualistic approach of the dominant culture.

Author : Michelle LeBaron
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015056813234

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Bridging Cultural Conflicts by Michelle LeBaron Pdf

"In our global society, challenging conflicts abound in personal, business, government, and international settings. Many of these conflicts are complicated by layers of miscommunication, cultural misunderstandings, and completely different ways of looking at the world. These conflicts cannot be solved by goodwill or sincere intentions alone. In our multicultural world, we need new tools to address gaps in communication and understanding and the conflicts that flow from them. This book answers this need in groundbreaking ways that cut through complexity, replacing confusion with clarity." - book jacket.

Author : Sayed Sadiya Abrar Ali
Publisher : kitab writing publication
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-02
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9789360922856

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Bridging Languages by Sayed Sadiya Abrar Ali Pdf

Welcome to “Bridging Languages: A Guide to Teaching English to Vernacular Language Students.” This book is a heartfelt exploration of the art and science of teaching English to students with diverse language backgrounds. As a teacher, I have witnessed the transformative power of language education and the profound impact it can have on individuals and communities. In the pages that follow, you will discover a comprehensive guide designed to empower educators, offering a blend of theoretical insights, practical strategies, and inspiring anecdotes. The journey begins with an exploration of the foundations of language learning, delving into the nuances of understanding student’s needs and establishing a solid groundwork for effective instruction. The heart of this book lies in the interactive learning adventures presented in the middle chapters. Here, we embark on a voyage of discovery, uncovering engaging activities and games that not only reinforce language skills but also make the learning process a joyous and dynamic experience. Challenges faced by vernacular language students are not overlooked. We navigate these challenges together, offering practical solutions, bridging cultural gaps, and sharing success stories that serve as beacons of inspiration. “ Bridging Languages: A Guide to Teaching English to Vernacular Language Students” extends beyond the classroom, emphasizing collaboration with parents, communities, and continuous professional development. Warm regards, ~ Sayed Sadiya Abrar Ali

Author : Jerrie Cobb Scott,Dolores Y. Straker,Laurie Katz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135269456

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Affirming Students' Right to Their Own Language by Jerrie Cobb Scott,Dolores Y. Straker,Laurie Katz Pdf

A Co-publication of the National Council of Teachers of English and Routledge. This landmark volume responds to the call to attend to the unfinished pedagogical business of the NCTE Conference on College Composition and Communication 1974 Students' Right to Their Own Language resolution. Chronicling the interplay between legislated/litigated education policies and language and literacy teaching in diverse classrooms, it presents exemplary research-based practices that maximize students' learning by utilizing their home-based cultural, language, and literacy practices to help them meet school expectations.