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Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning
This wide-ranging survey of issues in intercultural language teaching and learning covers everything from core concepts to program evaluation, and advocates a fluid, responsive approach to teaching language that reflects its central role in fostering intercultural understanding. Includes coverage of theoretical issues defining language, culture, and communication, as well as practice-driven issues such as classroom interactions, technologies, programs, and language assessment Examines systematically the components of language teaching: language itself, meaning, culture, learning, communicating, and assessments, and puts them in social and cultural context Features numerous examples throughout, drawn from various languages, international contexts, and frameworks Incorporates a decade of in-depth research and detailed documentation from the authors’ collaborative work with practicing teachers Provides a much-needed addition to the sparse literature on intercultural aspects of language education
Languages Professional Learning
The Community Language Schools SA Foundation Course is designed for those teaching in a language and culture program offered through a community language school in South Australia. Completion of the Foundation Course is a requirement for all teachers intending to teach in a community language program.The Foundation Course aims to introduce the fundamental theoretical and practical understandings and ideas that will enable teachers to teach the language and culture in their community language program. The program comprises the following sessions:?Session 1: The context of language/s teaching and learning in South Australia?Session 2: Views of language teaching and learning?Session 3: Principles of effective teaching and learning?Session 4: Knowing and connecting with your learners?Session 5: Classroom interaction - 1?Session 6: Classroom interaction - 2?Session 7: Teaching in action?Session 8: Planning and programming - 1?Session 9: Planning and programming - 2?Session 10: Assessment, reporting and evaluation
Languages Professional Learning
Community Language Schools SA offers a suite of 4 professional learning programs for teachers of community languages: ?Foundation ?Intermediate ?Advanced ?Leadership For each course, specific goals, objectives and materials were developed. For the Advanced Course, the materials are provided as a handbook that includes all interactions and support materials needed for each session. It is assumed that the courses are facilitated, with opportunities for discussion and sharing of understandings and practices that comes from experiences in different languages.PrinciplesThe following principles have underpinned the design and development of the set of the professional learning programs:?Designed a...
Dynamic Ecologies
This volume provides a fascinating glimpse into the complex language ecologies of Southeast Asia. Adopting a relational perspective, it considers their significance for the region, its peoples, the policy and practice of language teaching, learning and assessment and the fate of local languages. It gives particular prominence to the relationship between English and Chinese, it's likely transformation at a time of significant global change and the impact that these two languages and their synergy will have on the place of other languages and dialects. Dynamic Ecologies: A Relational Perspective on Languages Education in the Asia-Pacific Region draws on the research and insights of key scholars in the field and provides case studies that illustrate the impact of relevant language policy in countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Korea and Australia.
Teaching and Learning Languages
"... a resource for reflecting on languages education, the role of languages teachers, and their programs and pedagogies in relation to contemporary educational understandings and contexts".
Making a Difference
The rapid worldwide growth in migration, asylum seekers and refugees and reactions to this, the expansion of media and technology, political and economic changes at international and local levels are both challenges and opportunities for research in applied linguistics. This book presents 23 articles by key researchers exploring the ways in which applied linguistics can play a role making a difference in people’s lives. It is a timely publication when access to powerful discourses is increasingly an issue for many of the world’s populations. The book showcases the contribution of applied linguists working in such areas as language teaching and learning, policy development, discourse anal...
Languages Professional Learning
Community Language Schools SA offers a suite of 4 professional learning courses for teachers of community languages: Foundation, Intermediate, Advance and Leadership.The Community Language Schools SA Leadership Course is designed for those in leadership roles within a language and culture program offered through a community language school in South Australia. While elements of the course may be useful for those in administrative leadership roles, it is primarily designed for those providing leadership in curriculum, teaching and learning. Completion of the Leadership Course is optional for those working in leadership roles within community language school programs.The Leadership Course aims to develop participants' knowledge and capabilities to provide effective leadership within their community language program, particularly in relation to curriculum, teaching and learning, and in relation to relationships for learning - with teaching staff, students and community.Specific materials have been developed for each course. For the Leadership Course, the materials are provided as a handbook that includes all interactions and support materials needed for each session.
The Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Mediation
Offering unique coverage of an emerging, interdisciplinary area, this comprehensive handbook examines the theoretical underpinnings and emergent conceptions of intercultural mediation in related fields of study. Authored by global experts in fields from intercultural communication and conflict resolution to translation studies, literature, political science, and foreign language teaching, chapters trace the history, development, and present state of approaches to intercultural mediation. The sections in this volume show how the concept of intercultural mediation has been constructed among different fields and shaped by its specific applications in an open cycle of influence. The book parses different philosophical conceptions as well as pragmatic approaches, providing ample grounding in the key perspectives on this growing field of discourse. The Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Mediation is a valuable reference for graduate and postgraduate students studying mediation, conflict resolution, intercultural communication, translation, and psychology, as well as for practitioners and researchers in those fields and beyond.
