Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning

This wide-ranging survey of issues in intercultural languageteaching and learning covers everything from core concepts toprogram evaluation, and advocates a fluid, responsive approach toteaching language that reflects its central role in fosteringintercultural understanding. Includes coverage of theoretical issues defining language,culture, and communication, as well as practice-driven issues suchas classroom interactions, technologies, programs, and languageassessment Examines systematically the components of language teaching:language itself, meaning, culture, learning, communicating, andassessments, and puts them in social and cultural context Features numerous examples throughout, drawn from variouslanguages, international contexts, and frameworks Incorporates a decade of in-depth research and detaileddocumentation from the authors’ collaborative work withpracticing teachers Provides a much-needed addition to the sparse literature onintercultural aspects of language education