Mediating Languages and Cultures
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Author | : Dieter Buttjes |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1991 |
ISBN-10 | : 1853590703 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781853590702 |
Rating | : 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Mediating Languages and Cultures by : Dieter Buttjes
Book excerpt: The history of "language teaching" is shot through with methods and approaches to language learning - most recently with "communicative language teaching" - but this book demonstrates that a more differentiated and richer understanding of learning a foreign language is both necessary and desirable. Languages and cultures are interlinked and interdependent and their teaching and learning should be too. Learning another language is part of a complex process of learning and understanding other people's ways of life, ways of thinking and socio-economic experience