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Mediating Languages and Cultures
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
Interkulturelle Kommunikation
Interkulturelle Kommunikation ist mittlerweile an mehreren deutschen Universitäten vertreten, wozu nicht zuletzt das stetig anwachsende Interesse an interkulturellen Themen und Problemen beigetragen hat. Interkulturelle Kommunikation ist ein interdisziplinäres Studienfach, das sich in Deutschland aus den Fächern Ethnologie, Psychologie, Linguistik, Philologie, Pädagogik, Wirtschaftswissenschaft u.a. entwickelt hat bzw. innerhalb dieser Fächer als Spezialisierung betrieben wird. Zu fragen ist also, ob trotz der Vielfalt der Fachorientierungen gemeinsame Wissensbestände existieren und welche Gemeinsamkeiten hinsichtlich der Basisannahmen, Theorien und Methoden benannt werden können. Die...
Study Abroad and Second Language Use
Language plays an essential role in how we portray our personalities. Through social interaction, others develop a picture of us based on our linguistic cues. However, when we interact in a foreign language and in a new country, limitations in linguistic and cultural knowledge can make self-presentation a more difficult task. This book explores the problems faced by language students embarking on study abroad programmes, spending time in a foreign country and having to interact - and express their personalities - in a second language. Drawing on her extensive work with students, Valerie Pellegrino Aveni explores the factors that complicate self-presentation and the strategies students use for overcoming these, looking in particular at issues of anxiety, control, age, gender, risk-taking and self-esteem. Offering rich insights into the study abroad experience, this book will be an invaluable resource for professionals in second language acquisition, and for teachers and students preparing for study abroad.
Integrated Europe?
This volume contains information on the views held in various countries concerning what the future holds and what should be done, by each nation's own government as well as by the governments of the partner nations.
Mutual Perceptions Of Long-range Goals
This book investigates perceptions—including strategic, normative and imagined perceptions—of long-range political goals both in the East and in the West, discussing the arguments which are used to support each of these perceptions.
Transcending Boundaries
This volume presents 16 essays by friends and colleagues celebrating Gisela Hermann-Brennecke's 60th birthday. Since the early 1970s, when she emerged as one of the outstanding German specialists in language acquisition and language teaching, she has been active in research and teaching at various German universities and abroad. The wide range of Gisela Hermann-Brennecke's research interests and publications - transcending boundaries - is mirrored in the diversity of the contributions in this volume: language learning and language policy - studies in English, American, and Postcolonial literatures and cultures - creative writing.
Transculturalism and Business in the BRIC States
Transculturalism and Business in the BRIC States, edited by Yvette Sánchez and Claudia Franziska Brühwiler, is the first handbook on the BRIC States that offers a transcultural perspective, which goes beyond the typical ’how to’ manuals or economic projections and provides an understanding of transculturalism as it is studied and practiced in the respective countries themselves. This unique reference book also offers insights into the relations between the corresponding states and the challenges facing those trying to foster more intense business exchanges. The reader learns to interpret cross-cultural issues from the perspectives of the BRIC states themselves and gains insight into th...
Kulturwissenschaft als Kommunikationswissenschaft
Der Band entfaltet das produktive Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Kultur- und Kommunikationswissenschaft im Zusammenhang mit spezifischen Projekten und Problemen im Hinblick auf spezifische Perspektiven für die Kommunikationswissenschaft als Schlüsseldisziplin der Medien- und Kommunikationsgesellschaft.
