Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Competence - An Investigation in 7 Countries of Foreign Language Teachers' Views and Teaching Practices

This book reports on a study that focused on teachers' beliefs regarding intercultural competence teaching in foreign language education. It creates new knowledge on the variability, and relative consistency, of today's foreign language teachers' views regarding intercultural competence teaching in a number of countries.

About the author

The authors of the book are all members of CULTNET, a network of researchers of interculture in foreign language education (http: //millennium.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/cultnet). Lies Sercu (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) initiated and coordinated the project on which the book is based. The other project partners were Ewa Bandura (Jagiellonian University, Poland), Paloma Castro (University of Valladolid, Spain), Leah Davcheva (British Council, Bulgaria), Chryssa Laskaridou (Directorate for primary education on Western Thessaloniki, Greece), Ulla Lundgren (Jönköping University, Sweden), María del Carmen Méndez García (University of Jaén, Spain) and Phyllis Ryan (UNAM: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México).

Product details

• Authors: Sercu, Dr Lies Sercu, Lies Sercu
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.08.2005
• EAN: 9781853598449
• ISBN: 978-1-85359-844-9
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 211 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Series: 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