Language and Culture Pedagogy - From a National to a Transnational Paradigm

This book presents a view of what it means to teach language and culture in a world characterised by transnational flows of people, commodities and ideas. It contains an analysis of the national tradition of culture teaching as an aspect of foreign language teaching and proposes a transnational framework for language and culture pedagogy.

About the author

Karen Risager is Dr.Phil. and Professor in Cultural Encounters at the Department of Culture and Identity, Roskilde University, Denmark. She has conducted interdisciplinary research for thirty years within the fields of language and culture teaching, cultural studies and sociolinguistics, internationalisation and intercultural competence, and the language and cultural learning of adult migrants. She is one of the initiators of an interdisciplinary Master's programme in Cultural Encounters, focusing on culture, language, identity and power in a global perspective. Selected publications: Language Teachers, Politics and Cultures (Multilingual Matters 1999, with Michael Byram) and Language and Culture: Global Flows and Local Complexity (Multilingual Matters 2006).

Product details

• Authors: Karen Risager
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.03.2007
• EAN: 9781853599590
• ISBN: 978-1-85359-959-0
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 371 g
• Series: Languages for Intercultural Co; Languages for Intercultural Co
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures