Description
Book SynopsisThis edited volume explores the educational significance of intercultural experience. It offers a broader conception of interculturality than commonly found in the area of foreign language teaching. Contributors represent a diverse range of academic and professional interests. The aim of the book is to encourage dialogue and interchange across this range, and beyond, to stimulate thinking about the educational value of intercultural experience.
Trade ReviewThis book is recommended for learners, professionals and researchers in the fields of intercultural communication and language education as well as the wider academic area of cultural studies.
-- Masakazu Iino * Language & Education Vol 18 No 2, 2004 *
This edited volume provides rich and engaging accounts of being “intercultural” and offers pedagogical insights into intercultural education in a variety of contexts.
-- Jeeoweon Shin * Language Awareness Vol 13 No 2, 2004 *
The book in its entirety, as well as selections of chapters, is appropriate reading for undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as teacher education programmes.
-- Carla Chamberlain Quinlisk * International Journal of bilingual Education & Bilingualism Vol 7 No 4, 2004 *
Table of ContentsForeword
Series Editors’ Preface
Contributors’ Biographical Notes
1 Geof Alred, Mike Byram and Mike Fleming: Introduction
2 Geof Alred: Becoming a ‘Better Stranger’: A Therapeutic Perspective on Intercultural Experience and/as Education
3 Lothar Bredella: For a Flexible Model of Intercultural Understanding
4 Mike Byram: On Being ‘Bicultural’ and ‘Intercultural’
5 Leah Davcheva: Learning to be Intercultural
6 Mike Fleming: Intercultural Experience and Drama
7 Elizabeth Murphy-Lejeune: An Experience of Interculturality: Student Travellers Abroad
8 Celia Roberts: Ethnography and Cultural Practice: Ways of Learning During Residence Abroad
9 Phyllis M. Ryan: Searching for the Intercultural Person
10 Amita Sen Gupta: Changing the Focus: A Discussion of the Dynamics of the Intercultural Experience
11 David Stevens: English for the English: An Intercultural Approach
12 Susanne Weber: A Framework for Teaching and Learning ‘Intercultural Competence’
13 Geneviève Zarate: The Recognition of Intercultural Competences: From Individual Experience to Certification
Lothar Bredella: Afterword: What Does it Mean to be Intercultural
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