New Perspectives on Intercultural Language Research and Teaching: Exploring Learners' Understandings of Texts from Other Cultures

by Michael Byram and Melina Porto

Book Overview

Illustrated by an empirical study of English as a Foreign Language reading in Argentina, this book argues for a different approach to the theoretical rationales and methodological designs typically used to investigate cultural understanding in reading, in particular foreign language reading. It presents an alternative approach which is more authentic in its methods, more educational in its purposes, and more supportive of international understanding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138672408
• ISBN13: 9781138672406
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"