Authenticity across Languages and Cultures - Themes of Identity in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning

This volume centres around concepts of personal and cultural authenticity in foreign language teaching and learning. The chapters cover a wide range of contexts and disciplines, offering diverse perspectives regarding the role language plays in processes of personal growth, learning, development, self-actualisation and power dynamics.

About the author

Leo Will is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Giessen, Germany and an Adjunct Professor at Saint Mary’s University Halifax, Canada. He is the author of Authenticity in English Language Teaching: An Analysis of Academic Discourse (2018, Waxmann Verlag). He is conducting phenomenological research in the realm of language teacher education and takes an interest in vocabulary learning.
Wolfgang Stadler is a Professor of Russian (Applied) Linguistics and Subject-Specific Language Education at Innsbruck University, Austria. He is the author of a hundred academic articles dedicated to research in pragmatics, sociolinguistics and Russian language pedagogy and the (co-)editor of eight books on topics such as connecting cultures, the testing and assessing of foreign language competences, the pragmatics of silence and the linguistics of football. He has recently founded the open access journal Didaktik der Slawischen Sprachen (DiSlaw) and serves on the editorial board.
Irma Eloff is a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa and Adjunct Professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She is the author and editor of six books and more than 90 scientific articles and book chapters. She conducts research in sustainability sciences with particular interest in quality education and good health and wellbeing.

Summary

This volume centres around concepts of personal and cultural authenticity in foreign language teaching and learning. The chapters cover a wide range of contexts and disciplines, offering diverse perspectives regarding the role language plays in processes of personal growth, learning, development, self-actualisation and power dynamics.

Product details

• Assisted by: Irma Eloff (Editor), Eloff Irma (Editor), Wolfgang Stadler (Editor), Stadler Wolfgang (Editor), Leo Will (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781800411043
• ISBN: 978-1-80041-104-3
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Series: Second Language Acquisition
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Language teaching theory & methods, Language teaching and learning: second or addition