Context and Culture in Language Teaching

If the aim of foreign language education is to foster cross-cultural awareness and self-realization, language pedagogy needs to come to grips with a range of fundamental issues: what do we mean by cultural context? Can discourse practices be taught like rules of grammar? What role does literature play in the development of second language literacy? How can learners acquire both an insider’s and an outsider’s understanding of the foreign culture as expressed through its language?

By exploring these and other issues, the book can help language teachers reflect in their profession and place in within its larger societal and educational context. In turn, they can help learners become not only skillful users of the language, but also active architects of a new cross-cultural world order.

Autor: Kramsch, Claire J. 

Publicación: Oxford, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 1993

Este libro es una nueva adquisición del Sistema de Bibliotecas, y desde ahora puede ser consultado en la Biblioteca del Carmen de Viboral, Colección general, 418.007/K89