Context and Culture in Language Teaching and Learning

✍ Scribed by Michae Byram, Peter Grundy

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 111
• Series: Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education, 6
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The chapters in this work all address the significance of the relationship between the aims and methods of language teaching and the contexts in which it takes place. Some do so by considering the implications of this for the ways in which we research language teaching. Others present the results of research and development work, which shows that the various social and cultural forces in the contemporary world are changing the role of language teaching and learning.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 5
Introduction: Context and Culture in Language Teaching and Learning......Page 7
From Practice to Theory and Back Again......Page 10
Carrying a Baby in the Back: Teaching with an Awareness of the Cultural Construction of Language......Page 24
Autobiographical Contexts of Mono-Cultural and Bi-Cultural Students and their Significance in Foreign Language Literature Courses......Page 38
Learning Culture by Communicating: Native–Non-Native Speaker Telephone Interactions......Page 49
Exporting Methodologies: The Reflective Approach in Teacher Training......Page 57
‘We Would Have to Invent the Language we are Supposed to Teach’: The Issue of English as Lingua Franca in Language Education in Germany......Page 65
Teaching India in the EFL-Classroom: A Cultural or an Intercultural Approach?......Page 78
European Communicative Integration: The Function of Foreign Language Teaching for the Development of a European Public Sphere......Page 87
Context, Culture and Construction: Research Implications of Theory Formation in Foreign Language Methodology......Page 98