Intercultural Language Use and Language Learning

✍ Scribed by Juliane House (auth.), Eva Alcón Soler, Maria Pilar Safont Jordà (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 287
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume attempts to address an issue that deserves further attention on the part of language acquisition researchers: that of intercultural learners in instructed language contexts. Given the fact that most speech communities where such learning takes place are at least bilingual, and the idea that English is studied for the purposes of communication among people from different cultures, the book focuses on English learners as intercultural speakers. In so doing, the volume brings together three main research areas: those of the study of English as a lingua franca, the development of communicative competence and the use and acquisition of a language beyond a second one in instructed contexts.

This book is for researchers with an interest in the field of second/foreign language acquisition and use, scholars examining learner variables in instructional contexts, and scholars adopting a sociolinguistic perspective in the study of oral discourse and languages in contact.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-6
What Is an ‘Intercultural Speaker’?....Pages 7-21
Linguistic Unity and Cultural Diversity in Europe: Implications for Research on English Language and Learning....Pages 23-39
Rethinking the Role of Communicative Competence in Language Teaching....Pages 41-57
Dealing with Intercultural Communicative Competence in the Foreign Language Classroom....Pages 59-78
A Role for English as Lingua Franca in the Foreign Language Classroom?....Pages 79-100
Writing-to-learn in Instructed Language Learning Contexts....Pages 101-121
The Acquisition of Pragmatic Competence and Multilingualism in Foreign Language Contexts....Pages 123-140
Interindividual Variation in Self-perceived Oral Proficiency of English L2 Users....Pages 141-165
Pragmatic Production of Third Language Learners: A Focus on Request External Modification Items....Pages 167-189
North Korean Schools in Japan: An Observation of Quasi-Native Heritage Language Use in Teaching English as a Third Language....Pages 191-206
Examining Mitigation in Requests: A Focus on Transcripts in ELT Coursebooks....Pages 207-222
The Presentation and Practice of the Communicative Act of Requesting in Textbooks: Focusing on Modifiers....Pages 223-243
Analysing Request Modification Devices in Films: Implications for Pragmatic Learning in Instructed Foreign Language Contexts....Pages 245-280
Back Matter....Pages 281-287