This wide-ranging survey of issues in intercultural language teaching and learning covers everything from core concepts to program evaluation, and advocates a fluid, responsive approach to teaching language that reflects its central role in fostering intercultural understanding.

Includes coverage of theoretical issues defining language, culture, and communication, as well as practice-driven issues such as classroom interactions, technologies, programs, and language assessment Examines systematically the components of language teaching: language itself, meaning, culture, learning, communicating, and assessments, and puts them in social and cultural context Features numerous examples throughout, drawn from various languages, international contexts, and frameworks Incorporates a decade of in-depth research and detailed documentation from the authors’ collaborative work with practicing teachers Provides a much-needed addition to the sparse literature on intercultural aspects of language education

 

This wide-ranging survey of issues in intercultural language teaching and learning covers everything from core concepts to program evaluation, and advocates a fluid, responsive approach to teaching language that reflects its central role in fostering intercultural understanding.

Includes coverage of theoretical issues defining language, culture, and communication, as well as practice-driven issues such as classroom interactions, technologies, programs, and language assessment Examines systematically the components of language teaching: language itself, meaning, culture, learning, communicating, and assessments, and puts them in social and cultural context Features numerous examples throughout, drawn from various languages, international contexts, and frameworks Incorporates a decade of in-depth research and detailed documentation from the authors’ collaborative work with practicing teachers Provides a much-needed addition to the sparse literature on intercultural aspects of language education

 

The foundational text on intercultural language education, fully revised Language education that treats culture as separable from language fails to develop learners as intercultural speakers and mediators. Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning, now in its second edition, provides a theoretically grounded and research-based framing of language learning that integrates intercultural communication, applied linguistics, language learning theories, and language pedagogy into a coherent orientation to curriculum design, teaching and learning practice, assessment, and evaluation across diverse language programs in diverse educational contexts internationally. This edition features expanded conceptualisations of language, culture, and learning, including critical approaches to interculturality and language mediation. Revised material incorporates interdisciplinary theories of learning and hermeneutic approaches to language learning and assessment, recognizing language learning as both a multilingual and intercultural endeavour. A new chapter on teacher education foregrounds praxis in professional learning and development. Additional examples drawn from real classroom experiences appear throughout, and the elaboration of assessment reflects current research on multilingual and intercultural meaning-making. Readers will also find: A principled approach to assessing intercultural language learning that moves beyond traditional communicative testing towards foregrounding interpretation and reflectionConsistent integration of multilinguality and interculturality throughout the theoretical and pedagogical framing presented in every chapterAn expanded and integrated conception of curriculum development with adaptable principles for diverse language programs and institutional settingsTheoretical grounding that reframes the goals of language education towards personal meaning negotiation across diverse cultural contextsA set of principles enabling teachers and curriculum designers to enact a multilingual and intercultural orientation directly in their classroom contextsWidely recognized as a foundational text in the field, Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning serves graduate students, language teachers, teacher educators, researchers, curriculum designers, and policy makers working in applied linguistics, TESOL, and foreign language education who seek a comprehensive systematic and developmental framing of intercultural language education.

This wide-ranging survey of issues in intercultural language teaching and learning covers everything from core concepts to program evaluation, and advocates a fluid, responsive approach to teaching language that reflects its central role in fostering intercultural understanding. Includes coverage of theoretical issues defining language, culture, and communication, as well as practice-driven issues such as classroom interactions, technologies, programs, and language assessmentExamines systematically the components of language teaching: language itself, meaning, culture, learning, communicating, and assessments, and puts them in social and cultural contextFeatures numerous examples throughout, drawn from various languages, international contexts, and frameworksIncorporates a decade of in-depth research and detailed documentation from the authors’ collaborative work with practicing teachersProvides a much-needed addition to the sparse literature on intercultural aspects of language education

This volume provides a fascinating glimpse into the complex language ecologies of Southeast Asia. Adopting a relational perspective, it considers their significance for the region, its peoples, the policy and practice of language teaching, learning and assessment and the fate of local languages. It gives particular prominence to the relationship between English and Chinese, it's likely transformation at a time of significant global change and the impact that these two languages and their synergy will have on the place of other languages and dialects. Dynamic Ecologies: A Relational Perspective on Languages Education in the Asia-Pacific Region draws on the research and insights of key scholars in the field and provides case studies that illustrate the impact of relevant language policy in countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Korea and Australia.

This volume provides a fascinating glimpse into the complex language ecologies of Southeast Asia. Adopting a relational perspective, it considers their significance for the region, its peoples, the policy and practice of language teaching, learning and assessment and the fate of local languages. It gives particular prominence to the relationship between English and Chinese, it''s likely transformation at a time of significant global change and the impact that these two languages and their synergy will have on the place of other languages and dialects. Dynamic Ecologies: A Relational Perspective on Languages Education in the Asia-Pacific Region draws on the research and insights of key scholars in the field and provides case studies that illustrate the impact of relevant language policy in countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Korea and Australia.

This volume provides a fascinating glimpse into the complex language ecologies of Southeast Asia. Adopting a relational perspective, it considers their significance for the region, its peoples, the policy and practice of language teaching, learning and assessment and the fate of local languages. It gives particular prominence to the relationship between English and Chinese, it's likely transformation at a time of significant global change and the impact that these two languages and their synergy will have on the place of other languages and dialects. Dynamic Ecologies: A Relational Perspective on Languages Education in the Asia-Pacific Region draws on the research and insights of key scholars in the field and provides case studies that illustrate the impact of relevant language policy in countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Korea and Australia.

This wide-ranging survey of issues in intercultural language teaching and learning covers everything from core concepts to program evaluation, and advocates a fluid, responsive approach to teaching language that reflects its central role in fostering intercultural understanding.

Includes coverage of theoretical issues defining language, culture, and communication, as well as practice-driven issues such as classroom interactions, technologies, programs, and language assessment Examines systematically the components of language teaching: language itself, meaning, culture, learning, communicating, and assessments, and puts them in social and cultural context Features numerous examples throughout, drawn from various languages, international contexts, and frameworks Incorporates a decade of in-depth research and detailed documentation from the authors’ collaborative work with practicing teachers Provides a much-needed addition to the sparse literature on intercultural aspects of language education

 

This wide-ranging survey of issues in intercultural language teaching and learning covers everything from core concepts to program evaluation, and advocates a fluid, responsive approach to teaching language that reflects its central role in fostering intercultural understanding.

Includes coverage of theoretical issues defining language, culture, and communication, as well as practice-driven issues such as classroom interactions, technologies, programs, and language assessment Examines systematically the components of language teaching: language itself, meaning, culture, learning, communicating, and assessments, and puts them in social and cultural context Features numerous examples throughout, drawn from various languages, international contexts, and frameworks Incorporates a decade of in-depth research and detailed documentation from the authors’ collaborative work with practicing teachers Provides a much-needed addition to the sparse literature on intercultural aspects of language education

 

The foundational text on intercultural language education, fully revised Language education that treats culture as separable from language fails to develop learners as intercultural speakers and mediators. Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning, now in its second edition, provides a theoretically grounded and research-based framing of language learning that integrates intercultural communication, applied linguistics, language learning theories, and language pedagogy into a coherent orientation to curriculum design, teaching and learning practice, assessment, and evaluation across diverse language programs in diverse educational contexts internationally. This edition features expanded conceptualisations of language, culture, and learning, including critical approaches to interculturality and language mediation. Revised material incorporates interdisciplinary theories of learning and hermeneutic approaches to language learning and assessment, recognizing language learning as both a multilingual and intercultural endeavour. A new chapter on teacher education foregrounds praxis in professional learning and development. Additional examples drawn from real classroom experiences appear throughout, and the elaboration of assessment reflects current research on multilingual and intercultural meaning-making. Readers will also find: A principled approach to assessing intercultural language learning that moves beyond traditional communicative testing towards foregrounding interpretation and reflectionConsistent integration of multilinguality and interculturality throughout the theoretical and pedagogical framing presented in every chapterAn expanded and integrated conception of curriculum development with adaptable principles for diverse language programs and institutional settingsTheoretical grounding that reframes the goals of language education towards personal meaning negotiation across diverse cultural contextsA set of principles enabling teachers and curriculum designers to enact a multilingual and intercultural orientation directly in their classroom contextsWidely recognized as a foundational text in the field, Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning serves graduate students, language teachers, teacher educators, researchers, curriculum designers, and policy makers working in applied linguistics, TESOL, and foreign language education who seek a comprehensive systematic and developmental framing of intercultural language education.

This wide-ranging survey of issues in intercultural language teaching and learning covers everything from core concepts to program evaluation, and advocates a fluid, responsive approach to teaching language that reflects its central role in fostering intercultural understanding. Includes coverage of theoretical issues defining language, culture, and communication, as well as practice-driven issues such as classroom interactions, technologies, programs, and language assessmentExamines systematically the components of language teaching: language itself, meaning, culture, learning, communicating, and assessments, and puts them in social and cultural contextFeatures numerous examples throughout, drawn from various languages, international contexts, and frameworksIncorporates a decade of in-depth research and detailed documentation from the authors’ collaborative work with practicing teachersProvides a much-needed addition to the sparse literature on intercultural aspects of language education

This volume provides a fascinating glimpse into the complex language ecologies of Southeast Asia. Adopting a relational perspective, it considers their significance for the region, its peoples, the policy and practice of language teaching, learning and assessment and the fate of local languages. It gives particular prominence to the relationship between English and Chinese, it's likely transformation at a time of significant global change and the impact that these two languages and their synergy will have on the place of other languages and dialects. Dynamic Ecologies: A Relational Perspective on Languages Education in the Asia-Pacific Region draws on the research and insights of key scholars in the field and provides case studies that illustrate the impact of relevant language policy in countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Korea and Australia.

This volume provides a fascinating glimpse into the complex language ecologies of Southeast Asia. Adopting a relational perspective, it considers their significance for the region, its peoples, the policy and practice of language teaching, learning and assessment and the fate of local languages. It gives particular prominence to the relationship between English and Chinese, it''s likely transformation at a time of significant global change and the impact that these two languages and their synergy will have on the place of other languages and dialects. Dynamic Ecologies: A Relational Perspective on Languages Education in the Asia-Pacific Region draws on the research and insights of key scholars in the field and provides case studies that illustrate the impact of relevant language policy in countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Korea and Australia.

This volume provides a fascinating glimpse into the complex language ecologies of Southeast Asia. Adopting a relational perspective, it considers their significance for the region, its peoples, the policy and practice of language teaching, learning and assessment and the fate of local languages. It gives particular prominence to the relationship between English and Chinese, it's likely transformation at a time of significant global change and the impact that these two languages and their synergy will have on the place of other languages and dialects. Dynamic Ecologies: A Relational Perspective on Languages Education in the Asia-Pacific Region draws on the research and insights of key scholars in the field and provides case studies that illustrate the impact of relevant language policy in countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Korea and Australia.