Context and Culture in Language Teaching Claire J. Kramsch (Professor of German and Foreign Language Acquisition, University of California, Berkeley)

Context and Culture in Language Teaching By Claire J. Kramsch (Professor of German and Foreign Language Acquisition, University of California, Berkeley)

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This is an attempt to redraw the boundaries of foreign language study. It focuses attention not just on cultural knowledge as a necessary aspect of communicative competence, but as an educational objective in its own right, as an end as well as a means of language learning.

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Acknowledgements ; Preface ; Introduction ; Dubious dichotomies and deceptive symmetries ; The importance of context in language education ; A discourse perspective ; Notes ; 1. Educational challenge ; Of challenges and conditions ; Challenge as action ; Challenge as paradox ; Challenge as dialogue ; Double-voiced discourse ; Dialogic breakthrough ; Notes ; 2. Contexts of speech and social interaction ; What's in a context? ; Discourse and culture ; Contextual shaping ; Conclusion ; Notes ; 3. Teaching the spoken language ; Five case studies ; Problems and paradoxes ; Teaching language as (con)/text ; Notes ; 4. Stories and discourses ; Dimensions of particularity ; Understanding of particularity ; Conclusion ; Notes ; 5. Teaching the literary text ; Current practices ; Defining the reader ; Teaching the narrative ; Teaching poetry ; Post-teaching activities ; Conclusion ; Notes ; 6. Authentic texts and contexts ; What is cultural authenticity? ; The communicative proficiency approach ; The discourse analysis approach ; The challenge of multimedia ; Notes ; 7. Teaching language across the cultural faultline ; Cultural reality and cultural imagination ; C2, C2': reconstructing the C2 context of production and reception ; C1, C1': constructing a context of reception in the learner's native culture ; C1, C2: in the eyes of others ; Of bridges and boundaries ; Notes ; 8. Looking for third places ; A popular culture ; A critical culture ; An ecological culture ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Appendices ; Bibliography ; Index

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Title

Context and Culture in Language Teaching by Claire J. Kramsch (Professor of German and Foreign Language Acquisition, University of California, Berkeley)

Author

Claire J. Kramsch (Professor of German and Foreign Language Acquisition, University of California, Berkeley)

Series

Oxford Applied Linguistics

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Used - Good

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Paperback

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Year published

19930617

Number of pages

304

Prizes

Winner of Winner of the MLA Kenneth W Mildenberger Prize.

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Context and Culture in Language Teaching Claire J. Kramsch (Professor of German and Foreign Language Acquisition, University of California, Berkeley)

Context and Culture in Language Teaching by Claire J. Kramsch (Professor of German and Foreign Language Acquisition, University of California, Berkeley)

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