The present book is a collection of selected papers held at the 23rd International LAUD Symposium on «The Cultural Context in Communication Across Languages» (26-31 March 1997) in Duisburg, Germany. The papers included in this volume highlight several aspects pertaining to the cultural dimension of foreign language teaching and learning. The topics covered range from theoretical accounts on text, language, and culture through to empirically-based aspects of non-native discourse as well as sociolinguistic and cultural awareness in foreign language teaching. Finally, the volume brings together contributions from a wide variety of languages and cultural settings.
The Cultural Context in Foreign Language Teaching will interest students of educational linguistics and language pedagogy, intercultural communication and discourse analysis.
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Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture
32
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Frankfurt a.M.
Deutschland
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Höhe: 21 cm
Breite: 14.8 cm
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978-3-631-32338-0 (9783631323380)
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The Editor: Martin Pütz has taught English linguistics and applied linguistics at the universities of Duisburg, Düsseldorf, and Greifswald. His current research interests include sociolinguistics, cognitive grammar and foreign language teaching. He has done extensive fieldwork in Great Britain, Namibia und Australia on a variety of topics such as e.g. intercultural communication, codeswitching, language policy and educational language planning.
Contents: Martin Pütz: Preface - Lothar Bredella: Literary texts and intercultural understanding - Robert B. Kaplan: Is there a problem in writing and reading texts across languages - Chris Braecke, Ronald Geluykens and Katja Pelsmaekers: Clause ordering as a text-building device in written L2 - Carlos Inchaurralde: What is behind a word: cultural scripts - Chris Braecke, Hubert Cuyckens, Ronald Geluykens and Geert Jacobs: The use of modal auxiliaries in non-native communicative style - Anita Fetzer: Negative contextualization: a socio-semiotic approach to foreign language teaching - Colin Simpson: Cultural competence and FL comprehension - Angela Heidemann: 'Not everyone's cup of tea'. The problem of interculturality in foreign language teaching illustration - Rosina Marquéz Reiter: Sensitising Spanish learners of English to cultural differences: the case of politeness - Martin Pütz: Teaching sociolinguistics: language and some socio-cognitive processes at work - Christa van der Walt: Teaching the emergent culture of an official English in South Africa - Elise Prins: Linguistic and cultural factors that influence readability of mathematics questions - Augustin Simo Bobda: Sociocultural constraints in EFL teaching in Cameroon.
