Mediating Languages and Cultures
Edited by: Dieter Buttjes, Michael Byram
- Format:
- Paperback
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- ISBN:
- 9781853590702
- Published:
- 1st Nov 1990
- Publisher:
- Multilingual Matters
- Number of pages:
- 352
- Dimensions:
- 210mm x 148mm
- Availability:
- Available
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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.