Teaching Intercultural Competence Across the Age Range - From Theory to Practice

Focusing on the teaching and learning of intercultural communicative competence in foreign language classrooms in the USA, this ground-breaking book is the first to describe in detail how teachers, supported by university educators and education advisers, might plan and implement innovative ideas based on sound theoretical foundations.

About the author

Manuela Wagner is Associate Professor of Foreign Language Education and Director of the German Language and Culture Program at the University of Connecticut, USA.
Dorie Conlon Perugini is a Spanish teacher at Naubuc Elementary School in Glastonbury Public Schools, USA.
Michael Byram is Professor Emeritus at the University of Durham, UK and Guest Professor at the University of Luxembourg.

Summary

Focusing on the teaching and learning of intercultural communicative competence in foreign language classrooms in the USA, this ground-breaking book is the first to describe in detail how teachers, supported by university educators and education advisers, might plan and implement innovative ideas based on sound theoretical foundations.

Product details

• Assisted by: Michael Byram (Editor), Dorie Conlon Perugini (Editor), Dorie Conlon Perugini (Editor), Manuela Wagner (Editor)
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781783098903
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-890-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 470 g
• Series: Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education; Languages for Intercultural Co; Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education; Languages for Intercultural Co
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Fremdsprachendidaktik: Theorie und Methoden, Kulturwissenschaften, Fachspezifischer Unterricht, Schule und Lernen: Moderne (Nicht-Mutter-) Sprachen