Intercultural Language Use and Language Learning (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)

Eva Alcon Soler Maria Pilar Safont Jorda Universitat Jaume I, Spain The main purpose of the present book is to broaden the scope of research on the development of intercultural communicative competence. Bearing this purpose in mind, English learners are considered as intercultural speakers who share their interest for engaging in real life communication. According to Byram and Fleming (1998), the intercultural speaker is someone with knowledge of one or more cultures and social identities, and who enjoys discovering and maintaining relationships with people from other cultural backgrounds, although s/he has not been formally trained for that purpose. Besides, possessing knowledge of at least two cultures is the case of many learners in bilingual or multilingual communities. In these contexts, the objective of language learning should then focus on developing intercultural competence, which in turn may involve promoting language diversity while encouraging English as both a means and an end of instruction (see Alcon, this volume). This is the idea underlying the volume, which further sustains Kramsch's argument (1998) against the native/ non-native dichotomy. Following that author, we also believe that in a multilingual world where learners may belong to more than one speech community, their main goal is not to become a native speaker of English, but to use this language as a tool for interaction among many other languages and cultures."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2007
First published:	April 2007
Editors:	Eva Alcon Soler • Maria Pilar Safont Jorda
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
Edition:	2007 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-5635-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > Lexicography
LSN:	1-4020-5635-4
Barcode:	9781402056352

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