Representations of the World in Language Textbooks

This book presents a new and comprehensive framework for the analysis of representations of culture, society and the world in textbooks for foreign and second language learning. It points to the need for language learning materials to deal seriously with knowledge about the world, including its diversities and problems.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Karen Risager is Professor Emerita in Cultural Encounters, Roskilde University, Denmark. Her research field is language and intercultural education from a transnational and global perspective. She has published widely, including Representations of the World in Language Textbooks (Multilingual Matters, 2018).

Zusammenfassung

This book presents a new and comprehensive framework for the analysis of representations of culture, society and the world in textbooks for foreign and second language learning. It points to the need for language learning materials to deal seriously with knowledge about the world, including its diversities and problems.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Karen Risager
• Verlag: Multilingual Matters
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781783099559
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-955-9
• Seiten: 264
• Abmessung: 161 mm x 240 mm x 19 mm
• Gewicht: 564 g
• Serien: Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education; Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education; Languages for Intercultural Co
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein