Lunedì, 20 novembre 2017

"Practices in Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning"

Nuovo libro di K. Riley e M. Ennis, Cambridge Academic

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Practices in Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning, edited by Kate Riley of the School of International Studies UNITN and Mike Ennis of the Language Centre of UNIBZ, published by Cambridge Academic on 1st November, is a collection of papers first presented at  a Symposium, organised by the SIS in conjunction with TESOL Italy, The International Centre for Intercultural Exchange (Siena) and the Centro per Studi Interculturali (Verona) in November 2015.

This volume responds to the growing need for intercultural approaches to teaching and learning languages. The central premise is that the aim of intercultural language teaching and learning is to foster effective communication and effective learning in spaces between cultures in order to prepare learners for global citizenship, but that the corresponding models and methods must emerge from the bottom-up in order to meet the needs of each unique context. The book offers a collection of successful experiences rooted in praxis. It shares the activities, methods, models, and approaches which have been developed within specific contexts. Thus, it offers an example of how to adopt an “intercultural perspective” in teaching and learning. The editors and contributors share the conviction that the experiences detailed here can be informative to the realities of all readers in the same way that their own practices have been informed by others.