Whenever a new language is learned, a new culture is also learned. Swiderski provides instructive examples of language learning situations by describing multilingual events using more than twenty of the world's languages. All aspects of language learning from the physical environment of the classroom to the perceptions of events and emotions that languages express are considered. Australian aboriginal languages and Native American languages are analyzed to illustrate the world of differences of which English, Chinese, and Russian are also a part. The politics of language teaching and the effect of language policy in the classroom are brought out in concrete examples. This study will be of interest to language teachers and the general international community as well.
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Höhe: 240 mm
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978-0-89789-326-8 (9780897893268)
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RICHARD M. SWIDERSKI is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Moi University in Kenya./e He has written many books including Voices: An Anthropologist's Encounter with Italian-American Tradition (1986), Blood Weddings: The Knanaya of Keraka (1988), and Lives Between Cultures (1991).
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