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Title Culture and foreign language education : insights from research and implications for the practice / edited by Wai Meng Chan, Sunil Kumar Bhatt, Masanori Nagami, Izumi Walker.

Publication Info. Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (378 pages).
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Series Studies in second and foreign language education, 2192-0982 ; 10
Studies in second and foreign language education ; 10.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. Culture and foreign language education: an introduction to the book -- 2. Culture in foreign language learning: the implications for teachers and teacher training -- 3. Pre-service teachers discovering intercultural enquiry in language classroom discourse -- 4. Exploring the intercultural in Australian community languages teaching -- 5. Critical thinking, (inter)cultural awareness and pedagogical dilemmas: stories of three university teachers in Indonesia -- 6. First, second, third place and beyond: reflection on a philosophy of self & identity for intercultural language teaching -- 7. Growing up in Hawaiʻi as Japanese heritage language speakers: language, culture and identity -- 8. Identities and languages: two stories of multilingual development -- 9. The construction of cultural difference through negotiating participation: learning-as-participation in an English-medium college in Japan -- 10. Motivational changes and their affecting factors among students from different cultural backgrounds -- 11. Significant others in influencing Chinese EFL students' learning strategy use: from a sociocultural perspective -- 12. Cultural learning styles: "is there such a thing?" 13. Learning language and culture through video clips: an action research study -- 14. Shifting paradigms: a model for the integrated assessment of language and culture.
Summary "This book offers insights from current research on the role of culture in foreign language learning as well as the construction of culture and identity through language learning and use. It presents original empirical studies and theoretical discussions which bear important implications for curricular practice in language education, as well as accounts of developmental projects for integrated foreign language and culture learning"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Language and languages -- Study and teaching.
Language and languages -- Study and teaching.
Language and culture -- Study and teaching.
Language and culture -- Study and teaching.
Language and culture.
Second language acquisition -- Social aspects.
Second language acquisition -- Social aspects.
Second language acquisition.
Intercultural communication.
Intercultural communication.
Communication and culture.
Communication and culture.
Languages, Modern -- Social aspects.
Languages, Modern.
Social aspects.
Multicultural education.
Multicultural education.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Chan, Wai Meng, 1962- editor.
Bhatt, Sunil Kumar, editor.
Nagami, Masanori, editor.
Walker, Izumi, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Culture and foreign language education. Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015] 9781501510946 (OCoLC)932049509
ISBN 9781501502958 (electronic book)
1501502956 (electronic book)
9781501503023
1501503022
9781501510946 (cloth)
1501510940 (cloth)