Context and Culture in Language Teaching

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OUP Oxford, 1993年6月17日 - 295 頁
"This book takes cultural knowledge in language learning not only as a necessary aspect of communicative competence, but as an educational objective in its own right. If the aim of foreign language education is to foster cross-cultural awareness and self-realization, language pedagogy needs to come to grips with a range of fundamental issues: what do we mean by cultural context? Can discourse practices be taught like rules of grammar? What role does literature play in the development of second language literacy? How can learners acquire both an insider's and an outsider's understanding of the foreign culture as expressed through its language? By exploring these and other issues, the book can help language teachers reflect on their profession and place it within its larger societal and educational context. In turn, they can help learners become not only skilful users of the language, but also active architects of a new cross-cultural world order.".
 

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The importance of context in language education
9
Educational challenges
15
Contexts of speech and social interaction
34
Teaching the spoken language
70
Stories and discourses
105
Teaching the literary text
130
Authentic texts and contexts
177
Teaching language along the cultural faultline
205
Looking for third places
233
Appendices
260
Bibliography
268
Index
290
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關於作者 (1993)

Claire Kramsch is at University of California, Berkeley.

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