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2010 CRITICAL AND INTERCULTURAL THEORY AND LANGUAGE PEDAGOGY

 

Contents, acknowledgements, contributors

Articles

What is language pedagogy for?

Alison Phipps; Glenn S. Levine

In this chapter, the authors take a critical look at two main issues: the relationship of theory to language pedagogy …

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Theorizing translingual/transcultural competence

Claire Kramsch

“Translingual and transcultural competence” has been proposed by the 2007 Report of the Modern Language Association (MLA) Ad Hoc Committee …

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Classrooms and "real" worlds: Boundaries, roadblocks, and connections

Leo Van Lier

In this chapter, I examine the language classroom and its relations to the rest of the world. I take an …

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Understanding comprehension: Hermeneutics, literature, and culture in collegiate foreign language education

Per Urlaub

In this chapter, I propose a connection between hermeneutics and foreign language education. This connection generates insights into the process …

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Toward a contact pragmatics of literature: Habitus, text, and the advanced second-language classroom

David Gramling; Chantelle Warner

Drawing on field/practice theory and pragmatic stylistics, this chapter proposes a new aggregate model for upper-level second-language literature teaching called …

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The health care professional as intercultural speaker

Peih-ying Lu; John Corbett

This chapter considers points of contact and departure between intercultural language education and cross-cultural competence training in medicine. Educators in …

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Theorizations of intercultural communication

Maria Dasli

Within the fields of applied linguistics and modern language education, intercultural communication has experienced two significant developmental turns. The first …

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Framing ideas from classical language teaching, past and future

Jan Parker

The Modern Language Association (MLA) Ad Hoc Committee report (MLA, 2007) raises large questions about the teaching not only of …

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From core curricular to core identities: On critical pedagogy and foreign language/culture education

David Brenner

This chapter argues that some form of critical pedagogy should be promoted and sustained in foreign language/culture education despite current …

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Postcolonial complexities in foreign language education and the humanities

Robert W. Train

This chapter develops a critical perspective on foreign language education by drawing on postcolonial theory and research in order to …

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Collaboration and interaction: The keys to distance and computer-supported language learning

James A. Coleman; Regine Hampel; Mirjam Hauck; Ursula Stickler

This chapter describes the very practical approach to distance and online language learning that has allowed the United Kingdom’s largest …

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A social constructivist approach to foreign language writing in online environments

Idoia Elola; Ana Oskoz

While communicative approaches promote collaboration in the classroom, linguistic and cultural content knowledge is often regarded as information to be …

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Cognitive grammar and its applicability in the foreign language classroom

Carlee Arnett; Harriett Jernigan

The theory of Cognitive Grammar (CG), despite its compatibility with preferred theories of instruction and teaching methodologies, has yet to …

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After the MLA report: Rethinking the links between literature and literacy, research, and teaching in foreign language departments

Katherine Arens

This chapter takes up today’s literary and cultural theory as lacking attention to research and classroom implementation. The National Standards …

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Epilogue. Paradigms in transition

Alison Phipps; Glenn S. Levine

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