AAUSC 2017 Volume - Issues in Language Program Direction: Engaging the World: Social Pedagogies and Language Learning - Softcover

Bourns, Stacey Katz; Dubreil, Sebastien; Thorne, Steven L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1337554499 ISBN 13: 9781337554497

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2018

Synopsis

Under current geo-political conditions of social, environmental, and economic fragility and instability, the need for education to cultivate empathy, heighten attentiveness to the biosphere, and augment commitment to civic engagement imposes itself with urgency (Rifkin, 2012). As fundamentally social-relational phenomena, semiotic agility and critical language awareness serve as critical resources for ameliorating and transforming selves, communities, and societies. These points suggest that instructed language education would benefit from greater integration with a variety of real world contexts and communities. In response to this need, contributions to this volume propose approaches to pedagogically mediated second language learning that link classroom activities with relevant social practices occurring outside of instructional settings.

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About the Author

Stacey Katz received her Ph.D from the University of Texas, Austin, in French Linguistics. Stacey Katz is currently the Director of Language Programs in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She has published several pedagogical texts and presented her research at major conferences. Stacey's research interests include Applied French Linguistics, French syntax and French pragmatics.

Sebastien Dubreil is Teaching Professor of French and Francophone Studies, SLA, and Technology-Enhanced Learning at Carnegie Mellon University. Specializing in CALL, he focuses on the use of technology in fostering transcultural learning. His most recent research examines the notions of social pedagogies, linguistic landscapes, and game-based language and culture learning.

Steven L. Thorne is Professor of Second Language Acquisition in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Portland State University (USA), with a secondary appointment in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands). His interests include new media, mobile technologies, contextual traditions of language analysis and usage-based and distributed approaches to language development.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1337554499
• ISBN 13: 9781337554497
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288