Language Learners as Ethnographers

✍ Scribed by Celia Roberts; Michael Byram; Ana Barro; Shirley Jordan; Brian V Street

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 272
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book looks at the role of cultural studies and intercultural communication in language learning. It argues that learners who have the chance to stay in the target language country can be trained to do an ethnographic project. It combines a theoretical overview of language and cultural practices with a description of ethnographic approaches.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Part I. Language Learning and Ethnography: Theory and Practice
1. New Goals
2. Introducing Cultural Learning into the Language Curriculum
3. Theoretical Issues in Language and Cultural Practices
4. Representations, Discourses and Practices
5. Ethnography for Linguists
Part II. The Ealing Ethnography Project: A Case Study
6. Teaching Ethnography
7. Developing the Principles for an Ethnography Course
8. The Ethnography Class
9. The Student Ethnography Projects
10. ‘The Year Abroad’: An Ethnographic Experience
11. Conclusions and New Perspectives
Bibliography
Index

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