Intercultural and Transcultural Awareness in Language Teaching

Will Baker author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:7th Apr '22

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This Element explores new intercultural and transcultural approaches to understanding language, communication and culture and the implications for language teaching.

This Element examines the relationship between language and culture through an L2 in intercultural and transcultural communication. It puts forward the argument that we need to go beyond communicative competence in language teaching and focus instead on intercultural and transcultural awareness.The central aim of language teaching is typically to prepare learners to communicate through the language learnt. However, much current language teaching theory and practice is based on a simplistic view of communication that fails to match the multilingual and intercultural reality of the majority of second language (L2) use. This Element examines the relationship between language and culture through an L2 in intercultural and transcultural communication. It puts forward the argument that we need to go beyond communicative competence in language teaching and focus instead on intercultural and transcultural awareness. Implications for pedagogic practice are explored including intercultural and transcultural language education.

'… a valuable resource for present and future educators …' Laura Dubcovsky, Linguist

ISBN: 9781108812689

Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm x 5mm

Weight: 137g

75 pages