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The book deals with the question how students in multicultural EFL-classrooms can be prepared for their role as world citizens. The author shows that teaching English offers important potentials for cosmopolitan education due to its role as a «lingua franca». The study develops the construct cosmopolitan communicative competence as a theoretical framework. It also presents a teaching approach that combines students’ life-writing with the discussion of literary texts to advance the associated knowledge, skills and attitudes. The potentials of this approach are evaluated through the assessment of students’ competence development.



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Cosmopolitanism in education – Approaches to cultural learning in the EFL-classroom – Advancing cosmopolitan communicative competence in a life-writing approach to transnational literature in English – Teaching and assessing cosmopolitan communicative competence – Findings of empirical assessment

Teaching Cosmopolitanism through Transnational

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      Publisher: Peter Lang AG
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/03/2018
      ISBN13: 9783631742662, 978-3631742662
      ISBN10: 3631742665

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The book deals with the question how students in multicultural EFL-classrooms can be prepared for their role as world citizens. The author shows that teaching English offers important potentials for cosmopolitan education due to its role as a «lingua franca». The study develops the construct cosmopolitan communicative competence as a theoretical framework. It also presents a teaching approach that combines students’ life-writing with the discussion of literary texts to advance the associated knowledge, skills and attitudes. The potentials of this approach are evaluated through the assessment of students’ competence development.



      Table of Contents

      Cosmopolitanism in education – Approaches to cultural learning in the EFL-classroom – Advancing cosmopolitan communicative competence in a life-writing approach to transnational literature in English – Teaching and assessing cosmopolitan communicative competence – Findings of empirical assessment

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