Intercultural Learning in Modern Language Education - Expanding Meaning-Making Potentials

This book presents an ethnographic study of a modern language classroom where students not only learn to speak, read, listen or write a new language, but where they also learn to understand, to feel and to be in new ways, and to potentially transform themselves and the world around them through language study.

About the author

Erin Kearney is Assistant Professor of Foreign and Second Language Education at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is interested in cultural dimensions of foreign and second language teaching and learning, as well as language teacher development and education, early foreign language learning and language awareness, and classroom discourse and interaction in L2 settings.

Summary

This book presents an ethnographic study of a modern language classroom where students not only learn to speak, read, listen or write a new language, but where they also learn to understand, to feel and to be in new ways, and to potentially transform themselves and the world around them through language study.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Erin Kearney, Erin Kearney
• Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781783094677
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-467-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 218 mm x 155 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 380 g
• Series: Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education; Languages for Intercultural Co; Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education; Languages for Intercultural Co
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics