Cultural Mediation In Language Learning And Teaching

Author : Geneviève Zarate,Council of Europe,European Centre for Modern Languages
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789287152596

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Cultural Mediation in Language Learning and Teaching by Geneviève Zarate,Council of Europe,European Centre for Modern Languages Pdf

This project attempts to tackle several challenges: - to experience the variety of different teaching cultures as a source of innovation rather than as an obstacle; - to adopt a pluridisciplinary approach by introducing references taken from the social sciences in order to develop reflection on the role of languages in social cohesion; - to try and provide answers to a question hitherto rarely raised in the didactics of languages and cultures, namely the place of cultural mediation itself. [CoE website]

Author : Michelle Kohler
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781783093069

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Teachers as Mediators in the Foreign Language Classroom by Michelle Kohler Pdf

This book uses examples of classroom interaction to reveal how teachers of languages act as intercultural mediators and the implications of this for practice. The book offers an account of what teachers are thinking, feeling and doing as they enact an intercultural perspective on language teaching and learning.

Author : Michelle Kohler
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783093083

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Teachers as Mediators in the Foreign Language Classroom by Michelle Kohler Pdf

Language teachers are key figures in preparing young people for participation in an increasingly multilingual and culturally diverse world, yet little is known about how they go about this in practice. This book uses examples of classroom interaction to reveal how teachers of languages act as intercultural mediators and the implications of this for practice. To date, there has been little exploration of how teachers mediate language and culture learning from an intercultural perspective, and what underlies their mediation practices in terms of their conceptions of intercultural language teaching and learning. This book offers an account of what teachers are thinking, feeling and doing as they enact an intercultural perspective on language teaching and learning.

Author : Dieter Buttjes,Michael Byram
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Education
ISBN : 1853590703

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Mediating Languages and Cultures by Dieter Buttjes,Michael Byram Pdf

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

Author : Maria Stathopoulou
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783094134

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Cross-Language Mediation in Foreign Language Teaching and Testing by Maria Stathopoulou Pdf

This book contributes to the growing field of foreign language teaching and testing by shedding light on mediation between languages. Stathopoulou offers an empirically-grounded definition of mediation as a form of translanguaging and offers tools and methods for further research in multilingual testing. The book explores what cross-language mediation entails, what processes and strategies are involved, and the challenges often faced by mediators. As well as stressing the importance of administering tests which favour cross-language mediation practices, the author encourages the implementation of language programmes which promote the mingling-of-languages idea and target the development of language learners’ effective translanguaging practices. Researchers studying translanguaging, multilingualism, multilingual testing and the use of mother tongue in the foreign language classroom will all find this book of interest.

Author : James P. Lantolf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780194423069

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Sociocultural Theory Second Language Learning by James P. Lantolf Pdf

This book represents a major statement of the current research being conducted on the learning of second languages from a sociocultural perspective. The book is divided into a theoretical and an empirical part. Specific topics covered include: learning and teaching languages in the zone of proximal development; L1 mediation in the acquisition of L2 grammar; sociocultural theory as a theory of second language learning; gestural mediation in a second language; and constructing a self through a second language.

Author : Anthony J. Liddicoat,Angela Scarino
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781405198103

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Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning by Anthony J. Liddicoat,Angela Scarino Pdf

This wide-ranging survey of issues in intercultural language teaching and learning covers everything from core concepts to program evaluation, and advocates a fluid, responsive approach to teaching language that reflects its central role in fostering intercultural understanding. Includes coverage of theoretical issues defining language, culture, and communication, as well as practice-driven issues such as classroom interactions, technologies, programs, and language assessment Examines systematically the components of language teaching: language itself, meaning, culture, learning, communicating, and assessments, and puts them in social and cultural context Features numerous examples throughout, drawn from various languages, international contexts, and frameworks Incorporates a decade of in-depth research and detailed documentation from the authors’ collaborative work with practicing teachers Provides a much-needed addition to the sparse literature on intercultural aspects of language education

Author : Michael Byram
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853592110

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Teaching-and-learning Language-and-culture by Michael Byram Pdf

Offers some theoretical innovations in teaching foreign languages and reports how they have been applied to curriculum development and experimental courses at the upper secondary and college levels. Approaches language learning as comprising several dimensions, including grammatical competence, change in attitudes, learning about another culture, and reflecting on one's own. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Dieter Buttjes,Michael Byram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN : 1800418183

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Mediating Languages and Cultures by Dieter Buttjes,Michael Byram Pdf

The history of"language teaching"is shot through with methods and approaches to language learning - 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.

Author : Bessie Dendrinos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Intercultural communication
ISBN : 1032778717

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Mediation as Negotiation of Meanings, Plurilingualism and Language Education by Bessie Dendrinos Pdf

"Bringing together the voices of a diverse group of scholars and language professionals, this edited collection, concerned with the cultivation of plurilingualism in multilingual educational settings, builds on the theory and practice of linguistic and cultural mediation both as curricular content and social practice. The chapters view mediation as an important aspect of communication which involves dynamic, purposeful, interactivity, implicating social agents in the negotiation and construction of socially purposeful meanings across different languages and within the same language. Theoretically informed chapters present views on mediation as well as contributors' research and project outcomes in educational interventions. Chapters also describe how mediation has been incorporated in educational practices and how it materializes in social contexts. Ultimately, the book makes the case for why mediation constitutes a key competence to be developed for active global and local citizenry in today's societies where there is an increased rate of knowledge acquisition and exchange. Presenting research from classrooms and other multilingual environments, this book offers concrete suggestions for the development of language users/learners' ability to mediate within and across languages. It will appeal to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of language and education, education policy and politics, bilingualism and plurilingualism more generally. Curriculum designers may also find the volume of use"--

Author : Terry Osborn
Publisher : IAP
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781648024207

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Critical Reflection and the Foreign Language Classroom by Terry Osborn Pdf

Twenty years ago, this book introduced pre-service and in-service foreign language teachers to the basic concepts of critical educational study as applied to foreign language education in the United States. Since its initial publication, teachers now commonly known as world language educators are better prepared to understand issues of power in relation to, for example, language variety, language status, and language education. Indeed, much recent attention has been focused on critical approaches to language education including teaching for social justice. The author addresses issues such as the supposed "failure" of foreign language education, the educational filter role played by language classes, the concept of foreignness as seen in national standards, language curricula and textbooks, and the implications of these issues in terms of power relationships and cultural mediation both in and out of the classroom. The reader is encouraged to analyze the forms of cultural struggle that can be found within the world language classrooms of the United States including the likely impact those struggles have on members of the dominant and subordinate cultures. Two decades later, critical reflection continues to require these skills.

Author : Bessie Dendrinos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781040043332

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Mediation as Negotiation of Meanings, Plurilingualism and Language Education by Bessie Dendrinos Pdf

Bringing together the voices of a diverse group of scholars and language professionals, this edited collection, concerned with the cultivation of plurilingualism in multilingual educational settings, builds on the theory and practice of linguistic and cultural mediation both as curricular content and social practice. The chapters view mediation as an important aspect of communication which involves dynamic, purposeful interactivity, implicating social agents in the negotiation and construction of socially situated meanings across different languages and within the same language. Theoretically informed chapters present views on mediation as well as contributors’ research and project outcomes in educational interventions. They also describe how mediation has been incorporated in educational practices and how it materialises in social contexts. Ultimately, this book makes the case for why mediation constitutes a key competence to be developed for active global and local citizenry in today’s societies where there is an increased rate of knowledge acquisition and exchange. Presenting research from classrooms and other multilingual environments, this book offers concrete suggestions for the development of language users/learners’ ability to mediate within and across languages. It will appeal to scholars, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of language and education, education policy and politics, bilingualism and plurilingualism more generally. Curriculum designers may also find the volume of use.

Author : Troy McConachy,Irina Golubeva,Manuela Wagner
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800412620

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Intercultural Learning in Language Education and Beyond by Troy McConachy,Irina Golubeva,Manuela Wagner Pdf

This book provides a contemporary and critical examination of the theoretical and pedagogical impact of Michael Byram’s pioneering work on intercultural communicative competence and intercultural citizenship within the field of language education and beyond. The chapters address important theoretical and empirical work on the teaching, learning, and assessment of intercultural learning, and highlight how individual language educators and communities of practice enact intercultural learning in locally appropriate ways. The book offers comprehensive, up-to-date and accessible knowledge for researchers, teachers, teacher-trainers and students.

Author : Julie A. Belz,Steven L. Thorne
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Computer-assisted instruction
ISBN : 1413029922

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Internet-mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education by Julie A. Belz,Steven L. Thorne Pdf

This volume explores the "intercultural perspective" on foreign language education. From this viewpoint, the focus of language learning is redefined in terms of intercultural rather than communicative competence. Internet-mediation is a praxiological reflex of this conceptual shift in that it affords the embedding of foreign language learning and instruction in the sociocultural and sociopolitical contexts of language use and development in the form of classroom-based intercultural collaborations between internationally dispersed representatives of the languacultures under study. The contributions to the volume examine the pedagogy, processes, and outcomes of NS-NNS Internet-mediated language and culture learning partnerships in French, German, Spanish, EFL, and Russian from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, including model learning, reflective practice, learner corpus analysis, cultural studies, ethnography, interactionism, and critical theory. Internet-mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education represents the 2005 volume of the annual series Issues in Language Program Direction sponsored by the American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators of Foreign Language Programs under the editorship of Sally Magnan.

Author : Donald C. Kiraly,Karin Maksymski,Silvia Hansen-Schirra
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Translating and interpreting
ISBN : 9783823368199

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New Prospects and Perspectives for Educating Language Mediators by Donald C. Kiraly,Karin Maksymski,Silvia Hansen-Schirra Pdf