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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Elinor ParksPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780367357085ISBN 10: 0367357089 Pages: 258 Publication Date: 23 January 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education 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 ContentsIntroduction; 1. Problematising the separation between language and content in UK and US Modern Language degrees; 2. Language graduates with ‘deep translingual and transcultural competence’; 3. Fostering Criticality and Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) in Higher Education; 4. Exploring faculty and students’ views on the ML curriculum and students’ development of critical cultural awareness and criticality; 5. Observed differences and similarities between British and American universities; 6. Fostering criticality development; 7. The development of intercultural competence and critical cultural awareness; 8. Defining and contextualising two emerging new competencies: communicative criticality and savoir se reconnaître; 9. Towards a new understanding of language degrees and critical cultural awareness: Implications for theory, research and practiceReviewsCritically motivated, comprehensively researched and lucidly written, this timely study analyses the challenges faced by the Higher Education foreign language curriculum in the 21st century. Based on extensive evidence which features the voices of both educators and students, this book extends our understanding of the field through proposing a radical synthesis of interculturality and criticality. -Malcolm N. MacDonald is Associate Professor of language education and applied linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK and editor of the Language and Intercultural Communication Journal. Critically motivated, comprehensively researched and lucidly written, this timely study analyses the challenges faced by the Higher Education foreign language curriculum in the 21st century. Based on extensive evidence which features the voices of both educators and students, this book extends our understanding of the field through proposing a radical synthesis of interculturality and criticality. -Malcolm N. MacDonald is Associate Professor of language education and applied linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK and editor of the Language and Intercultural Communication Journal. Critically motivated, comprehensively researched and lucidly written, this timely study analyses the challenges faced by the Higher Education foreign language curriculum in the 21st century. Based on extensive evidence which features the voices of both educators and students, this book extends our understanding of the field through proposing a radical synthesis of interculturality and criticality. -Malcolm N. MacDonald is Associate Professor of language education and applied linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK and editor of the Language and Intercultural Communication Journal. Author InformationElinor Parks completed her PhD at the University of Hull. She is currently Tutor of German at the University of York and the University of Manchester. Her research explores the complexity behind the separation between language and content in modern language degrees both in the UK and in the US. In particular, the research examines implications of the divide for students’ development of criticality and intercultural competence. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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