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  • In praise of multilingualism on 2009-12-11
    • What are these three
      languages we have to learn?
      Our mother tongue, obviously, a “neighbour”
      language and an international language. U      NESCO’s language policy replaces the standard
      idea of a “foreign” language with the notion of a neighbour language, a language
      spoken just over the border. We most often go to war against our neighbours, so
      we have to learn their language, discover their needs and ambitions and know
      their culture and values.
  • The new immigration: an ... - Google Books on 2009-12-11
  • Aqui no se habla espanol: Stories of linguistic repression in southwest schools | Bilingual Research Journal | Find Articles at BNET on 2009-12-11
    • attest to the notion that schools remain one of the most ardent battlegrounds
      for the English language policy debate. Nonetheless, school-based language
      policy decisions have been made too hastily, often relying on rash assessments
      of public opinion or personal biases
  • The Importance Of Teaching Culture In The Foreign Language Classroom on 2009-12-07
    • This list of goals is definitely an improvement on Huebener’s (1959: 182-183)
      list of ‘desirable outcomes’. At any rate, the aim of teaching culture is ‘to
      increase students’ awareness and to develop their curiosity towards the target
      culture and their own, helping them to make comparisons among cultures’ (Tavares
      & Cavalcanti, 1996: 19). These comparisons, of course, are not meant to
      underestimate foreign cultures but to enrich students’ experience and to
      sensitise them to cultural diversity. ‘This diversity should then be understood
      and respected, and never…over (sic) or underestimated’ (ibid.: 20). In the next
      chapter, we will consider different ways of teaching (about) culture. As Kramsch
      (1993: 245) succinctly puts it, teachers’ and learners’ task is ‘to understand
      in ever more sensitive ways why they talk the way they do, and why they remain
      silent: this type of knowledge Clifford Geertz [1983] calls local knowledge’.
    • language teachers need to go beyond monitoring linguistic production in the
      classroom and become aware of the complex and numerous processes of
      intercultural mediation that any foreign language learner undergoes…’.
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  • Sharing Power with Students: The Critical Language Classroom on 2009-11-14
  • VideoJug on 2009-11-13
  • A Didactic Activity: Humour as a Problem-solving Strategy in an Intercultural Perspective on 2009-11-11
  • Social Constructivist/ Interactionist Models on 2009-11-10
  • FlashCardFriends - Create flashcards, find and modify existing flashcards, share them with friends, test yourself...it's fun, free & it works! on 2009-10-29
  • Language Learning and Intercultural Competence - WikiEducator on 2009-10-28

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