Author : Adriana Raquel Díaz
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783090372
Developing Critical Languaculture Pedagogies in Higher Education by Adriana Raquel Díaz Pdf
Despite widespread agreement about the need to develop interculturally competent graduates, there is a lack of agreement about how this goal may be achieved in practice. This is significant as universities around the world, particularly in English-speaking countries, have espoused an interculturally-aware vision for their future graduates and turned to language education, as an inherently intercultural activity, to expose students to a world which is linguistically and culturally different from their own. This book focuses on narrowing the gap between the often conflicting theoretical and practical imperatives faced by language teachers in an internationalised higher education context. It does so by providing comprehensive conceptual discussions of emerging critical intercultural language pedagogies as well as empirical accounts and case studies from the frontline.