Teachers as mediators in the foreign language classroom
By: Michelle Kohler
Series: Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education -- 27
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Bristol; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781783093069; 9781783093052; 9781783093076
Subjects: Language and languages; Study and teaching..; Interlanguage (Language learning); Intercultural communication; Study and teaching; Language teachers; Mentoring
Description: Language teachers are key figures in preparing young people for participation in an increasingly multilingual and culturally diverse world, yet little is known about how they go about this in practice. This book uses examples of classroom interaction to reveal how teachers of languages act as intercultural mediators and the implications of this for practice. To date, there has been little exploration of how teachers mediate language and culture learning from an intercultural perspective, and what underlies their mediation practices in terms of their conceptions of intercultural language teaching and learning. This book offers an account of what teachers are thinking, feeling and doing as they enact an intercultural perspective on language teaching and learning.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-233) and index.