Language Learning in Intercultural Perspective: Approaches Through Drama and Ethnography (Cambridge Language Teaching Library)

ISBN 10: 0521625599 / ISBN 13: 9780521625593

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Language Learning in Intercultural Perspective: Approaches Through Drama and Ethnography (Cambridge Language Teaching Library)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521625599
• ISBN 13: 9780521625593
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Language Learning in Intercultural Perspective addresses the ways in which language learning is related to learning about other cultures and to acquiring an ability to communicate across cultural frontiers. It argues that language learners need to develop sensitivity to cultural difference and its impact on communication, and to acquire the skills of discovering and interpreting other cultures, other values, beliefs and behaviours which lie beneath the surface of cross-cultural communication. Contributors show how drama can be used to develop cultural awareness and how learners can acquire ethnographic skills to help them investigate and understand socio-cultural aspects of language which play an important role in second language acquisition. The contributors are all respected educationalists from a range of countries and different cultural contexts.

Book Description

This book discusses the importance of sensitivity to cultural differences for language learners.