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Teaching languages from an intercultural perspective : rethinking the nature of learning
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Liddicoat, Anthony J. (2020) Teaching languages from an intercultural perspective : rethinking the nature of learning. In: Arber, Ruth and Weinmann, Michiko and Blackmore, Jillian, (eds.) Rethinking Languages Education: Directions, Challenges and Innovations. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781138091580
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Abstract
The movement towards an intercultural understanding of languages education has had many consequences for how languages are taught that involve more than an attempt to introduce additional elements in language education; moreover, the movement entails a true integration of language, culture and the intercultural in language pedagogy. This has promoted a rethinking of fundamental ideas about languages and cultures and the ways they are taught. This chapter will examine some of the core assumptions behind adopting an intercultural perspective in language teaching and learning, and discuss how these assumptions influence the practice of language teaching. In particular, it will focus on how teaching languages from an intercultural perspective has involved rethinking the nature of learning. The chapter will examine how learning has been understood in theories in applied linguistics and language education, and argue that such theories have narrowed the focus of languages learning—and have also narrowed what is meant by ‘language for learning’. The chapter will then examine some alternative views about learning drawn from outside the field of applied linguistics to consider more complex ways of conceptualising learning. It will argue for a hermeneutic understanding of the nature of learning and provide examples of what this might look like in practice through examining examples of students' work that reflect an interpretative understanding of language learning.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Language and languages -- Study and teaching, Language and language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers, Intercultural communication -- Study and teaching | ||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
| Place of Publication: | New York | ||||||
| ISBN: | 9781138091580 | ||||||
| Book Title: | Rethinking Languages Education: Directions, Challenges and Innovations | ||||||
| Editor: | Arber, Ruth and Weinmann, Michiko and Blackmore, Jillian | ||||||
| Official Date: | 27 November 2020 | ||||||
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| Number of Pages: | 264 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781315107974-13 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Rethinking Languages Education: Directions, Challenges and Innovations on November 27, 2020, available online: https://www.routledge.com/Rethinking-Languages-Education-Directions-Challenges-and-Innovations/Arber-Weinmann-Blackmore/p/book/9781138091580 | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright Year 2021 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 July 2020 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 27 May 2022 | ||||||
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