Context and Culture in Language Teaching
Winner of the MLA Kenneth W Mildenberger Prize
This is an attempt to redraw the boundaries of foreign language study. It focuses attention not just on cultural knowledge as a necessary aspect of communicative competence, but as an educational objective in its own right, as an end as well as a means of language learning.
- Part of: Oxford Applied Linguistics
- ISBN: 978-0-19-437187-2
- RRP: £ 32.00
- Pages: 304
- Binding: Paperback
- Dimensions: 216x138 mm
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Contact your local Oxford office or distributor for information or advice on any of our materials, or to find your local ELT bookseller.Part of... Oxford Applied Linguistics
The core foundations of applied linguistics have long been located in exploring language as it is used in the world and in finding solutions to language-based problems. Modern applied linguistics is interdisciplinary and wide-ranging, being informed by research spanning psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, education, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and other areas of the cognitive, learning, and information sciences.
The goal of the OUP Applied Linguistics Series is to influence the quality of language education through publishing and disseminating relevant scholarship and research.
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The series attracts single or co-authored volumes from authors researching at the cutting edge of this dynamic field of interdisciplinary enquiry. The titles range from books that make such developments accessible to the non-specialist reader to those which explore in depth their relevance for the way language is to be conceived as a subject, and how courses and classroom activities are to be designed. As such, these books not only extend the field of applied linguistics itself and lend an additional significance to its enquiries, but also provide an indispensable professional foundation for language pedagogy and its practice.
The scope of the series includes:- second language acquisition
- bilingualism and multi/plurilingualism
- language pedagogy and teacher education
- testing and assessment
- language planning and policy
- language internationalization
- technology-mediated communication
- discourse-, conversation-, and contrastive-analysis
- pragmatics
- stylistics
- lexicography
- translation
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Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Dubious dichotomies and deceptive symmetries
The importance of context in language education
A discourse perspective
Notes
1 Educational challenge
Of challenges and conditions
Challenge as action
Challenge as paradox
Challenge as dialogue
Double-voiced discourse
Dialogic breakthrough
Notes
2 Contexts of speech and social interaction
What's in a context?
Discourse and culture
Contextual shaping
Conclusion
Notes
3 Teaching the spoken language
Five case studies
Problems and paradoxes
Teaching language as (con)/text
Notes
4 Stories and discourses
Dimensions of particularity
Understanding of particularity
Conclusion
Notes
5 Teaching the literary text
Current practices
Defining the reader
Teaching the narrative
Teaching poetry
Post-teaching activities
Conclusion
Notes
6 Authentic texts and contexts
What is cultural authenticity?
The communicative proficiency approach
The discourse analysis approach
The challenge of multimedia
Notes
7 Teaching language across the cultural faultline
Cultural reality and cultural imagination
C2, C2': reconstructing the C2 context of production and reception
C1, C1': constructing a context of reception in the learner's native culture
C1", C2": in the eyes of others
Of bridges and boundaries
Notes
8 Looking for third places
A popular culture
A critical culture
An ecological culture
Conclusion
Notes
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
