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OverviewThe issues which foreign language teachers meet in their professional lives are usually considered to be of a 'technical' nature: how to motivate learners, what methods to use, how to assess learning etc. This book takes a different perspective and shows that foreign language teaching has a strong political character and responds to the social and political changes of the contemporary world. This is particularly evident in the cultural dimension of language teaching through which learners are introduced to other countries and their values and beliefs. The book demonstrates the importance of these issues for all language teachers in their day-to-day teaching by investigating the effect of major social and political change in two countries, England and Denmark. The authors have interviewed teachers in both countries to analyse the effects of such change. They ask, for example, about the ways in which increased mobility - one of the declared aims of European organisations - have affected their experiences of target language countries. On the basis of teachers' views, they make recommendations as to how the language teaching profession in general should face its social and political responsibilities in the education of young people in the contemporary world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael Byram , Karen RisagerPublisher: Channel View Publications Ltd Imprint: Multilingual Matters Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.376kg ISBN: 9781853594410ISBN 10: 1853594415 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 10 March 1999 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsEuropean intergration and the European dimension - teachers' views; European intergration - political and educational trends; the cultural dimension in foreign language education; teachers' views on the cultural dimension; stereotypes and prejudices; learning by experience - contacts abroad; new relationships between langauge and culture - the way forward.ReviewsAuthor InformationAuthor Website: https://www.dur.ac.uk/education/staff/profile/?id=613Michael Byram is Professor Emeritus at the University of Durham, UK and Guest Professor at the University of Luxembourg. Karen Risager is Dr.Phil. and Professor in Cultural Encounters at the Department of Culture and Identity, Roskilde University, Denmark. She has conducted interdisciplinary research for thirty years within the fields of language and culture teaching, cultural studies and sociolinguistics, internationalisation and intercultural competence, and the language and cultural learning of adult migrants. She is one of the initiators of an interdisciplinary MasteraEURO(t)s programme in Cultural Encounters, focusing on culture, language, identity and power in a global perspective. Selected publications: Language Teachers, Politics and Cultures (Multilingual Matters 1999, with Michael Byram) and Language and Culture: Global Flows and Local Complexity (Multilingual Matters 2006). Tab Content 6Author Website: https://www.dur.ac.uk/education/staff/profile/?id=613Countries AvailableAll regions |
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