Context and Culture in Language Teaching / Edition 1

by Claire Kramsch

Overview

This book focuses attention on cultural knowledge not just 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780194371872
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/17/1993
Series:	Oxford Applied Linguistics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	8.42(w) x 5.47(h) x 0.69(d)

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionDubious dichotomies and deceptive symmetriesThe importance of context in language educationA discourse perspectiveNotes1. Educational challengeOf challenges and conditionsChallenge as actionChallenge as paradoxChallenge as dialogueDouble-voiced discourseDialogic breakthroughNotes2. Contexts of speech and social interactionWhat's in a context? Discourse and cultureContextual shapingConclusionNotes3. Teaching the spoken languageFive case studiesProblems and paradoxesTeaching language as (con)/textNotes4. Stories and discoursesDimensions of particularityUnderstanding of particularityConclusionNotes5. Teaching the literary textCurrent practicesDefining the readerTeaching the narrativeTeaching poetryPost-teaching activitiesConclusionNotes6. Authentic texts and contextsWhat is cultural authenticity? The communicative proficiency approachThe discourse analysis approachThe challenge of multimediaNotes7. Teaching language across the cultural faultlineCultural reality and cultural imaginationC2, C2': reconstructing the C2 context of production and receptionC1, C1': constructing a context of reception in the learner's native cultureC1", C2": in the eyes of othersOf bridges and boundariesNotes8. Looking for third placesA popular cultureA critical cultureAn ecological cultureConclusionNotesbr /AppendicesBibliographyIndex