Intercultural Communication and Language Learning
Published on 6. January 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
298 pages
978-1-874045-67-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book brings together papers delivered at a conference in 1999 on language studies, with the contributors writing from their experience of higher education in Ireland. The book embraces the changes in the study of literature in degree programmes in modern languages, whereby curricula increasingly focus on intercultural communication. The book offers perspectives from both established scholars and younger researchers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dublin
Ireland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-874045-67-0 (9781874045670)
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Angela Chambers is a professor of Applied Languages in the School of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication at the University of Limerick. Her research areas fall under the broad heading of second language acquisition and language pedagogy, with particular reference to corpora. Donall P. O Baoill is a graduate of NUI Galway (BA 1968, Higher Diploma in Education 1969) and of the University of Michigan (MA 1971; PhD 1973). He joined the staff of Irish & Celtic Studies at Queen's University Belfast as Professor of Irish in 1999. His main research interests lie in the areas of applied and theoretical linguistics.