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  • Rethinking Intercultural Competence

    Theoretical Challenges and Practical Issues

    Edited by Theo Harden, Arnd Witte ...
    Series Book 22 - Intercultural Studies and Foreign Language Learning
    This book examines the concept of «intercultural competence» from the perspective of analysing theoretical challenges and practical issues. Despite its ongoing popularity across various discourses, «intercultural competence» has remained a necessarily vague and oscillating concept that lends itself to continual rethinking and redefinition. The essays in this volume approach the complexity of the ... Read more

    $60.19 USD

  • Emotion and identity in second language learning

    by Theo Harden, Arnd Witte ...
    Series Book 23 - Intercultural Studies and Foreign Language Learning
    This book brings together 18 theoretical and empirical chapters that analyse the role of emotion (expression, perception, processing) and identity (notions and representations, construction, conflict) in the process of learning a second language. Studies on the differences in emotionality between L1 and L2 suggest that in L2 there is an alteration that, in many cases, manifests itself as a ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Foreign Language Learning as Intercultural Experience

    The Subjective Dimension

    Edited by Arnd Witte, Theo Harden ...
    Series Book 16 - Intercultural Studies and Foreign Language Learning
    Learning a foreign language in its cultural context has a significant effect on the subjective mind, ranging from the unsettling to the inspirational. The complex interplay between native and foreign languages, their cultural conceptualisations and discourses and the mind and body of the learner results in the subjective construction of individual positionings located «in between» the languages ... Read more

    $81.49 USD

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  • Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence

    Revisited

    by Prof. Michael Byram ...
    2nd edition of a classic text that has been used around the world in teacher training.This revised edition of Michael Byram’s classic 1997 book updates the text in light of both recent research and critiques and commentaries on the 1st edition. Beginning from the premise that foreign and second language teaching should prepare learners to use a language with fluency and accuracy, and also to speak ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Language Awareness

    Edited by Peter Garrett, Josep M. Cots ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics
    The Routledge Handbook of Language Awareness is a comprehensive and informative overview of the broad field of language awareness. It contains a collection of state-of-the-art reviews of both established themes and new directions, authored and edited by experts in the field. The handbook is divided into three sections and reflects the engaging diversity of language awareness perspectives on ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Knowledge and Action

    Edited by Peter Meusburger, Benno Werlen, Laura Suarsana ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume explores interdependencies between knowledge, action, and space from different interdisciplinary perspectives. Some of the contributors discuss knowledge as a social construct based on collective action, while others look at knowledge as an individual capacity for action. The chapters contain theoretical frameworks as well as experimental outcomes.Readers will gain insight into key ... Read more

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  • Didaktik and Curriculum in Ongoing Dialogue

    Edited by Ane Qvortrup, Ellen Krogh, Stefan Ting Graf ...
    Didaktik and Curriculum in Ongoing Dialogue revives the dialogue between the continental European Didaktik tradition and the Anglo-Saxon tradition of curriculum. It highlights important research findings that bridge cultural differences and argues for a mutual exchange and understanding of ideas.Through analyses of shared conditions and cultural differences, the book invites a critical stance and ... Read more

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  • Research on Teacher Thinking (RLE Edu N)

    Understanding Professional Development

    by James Calderhead, Pam Denicolo, Christopher Day ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This is a companion volume to the editors’ Insights into Teachers’ Thinking and Practice (Falmer Press, 1999) and seeks to carry the discussion on further illustrating that there is a continuing intensity of thought, activity and debate on how to conceptualise research on teacher thinking, and thus generate knowledge for further understanding and action. The ethical questions on undertaking ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Understanding the Self and Others

    Explorations in intersubjectivity and interobjectivity

    Edited by Gordon Sammut, Paul Daanen, Fathali Moghaddam ...
    How do we, as human beings, come to understand ourselves and others around us? This question could not be more timely or pertinent to the issues facing humankind today. At the heart of many of our world’s most troubling political and social problems lies a divergence, and sometimes a sharp contradiction, in perspectives between nations and cultural groups. To find potential solutions to these ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Experiential Learning in Foreign Language Education

    by Viljo Kohonen, Riitta Jaatinen, Pauli Kaikkonen, Jorma Lehtovaara ...
    Series series Applied Linguistics and Language Study
    The goal of foreign language teaching is expanding from communicative competence towards an intercultural action competence. Essential in the new orientation is the shift towards a more balanced emphasis between the external factors in the learning environment and the personal capacity, conceptions, beliefs and assumptions inside the learner's mind. As part of the changes, assessment is seen as an ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Theorizing Teaching

    Current Status and Open Issues

    Edited by Anna-Katharina Praetorius, Charalambos Y. Charalambous ...
    This open access book seeks to create a forum for discussing key questions regarding theories on teaching: Which theories of teaching do we have? What are their attributes? What do they contain? How are they generated? How context-sensitive and content-specific do they need to be? Is it possible or even desirable to develop a comprehensive theory of teaching? The book identifies areas of ... Read more

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  • Taboos and Controversial Issues in Foreign Language Education

    Critical Language Pedagogy in Theory, Research and Practice

    Edited by Christian Ludwig, Theresa Summer ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Language Education
    This edited volume provides innovative insights into how critical language pedagogy and taboo topics can inform and transform the teaching and learning of foreign languages.The book investigates the potential as well as the challenges involved in dealing with taboo topics in the foreign language classroom. Traditionally subsumed under the acronym PARSNIP (politics, alcohol, religion, narcotics, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD