Mediating Languages and Cultures

By Buttjes

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853590703
• ISBN13: 9781853590702
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"