Foreign and second language teaching should prepare learners to use a language with fluency and accuracy, and also to speak with people who have different cultural identities, social values and behaviours. This text aims to define precisely what competencies are required, how these can be included in teachers' objectives and methods, and how the ability to communicate across cultural differences can be assessed.
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Foreign language teaching should prepare learners to speak fluently, accurately and with people who have different cultural identities, values and behaviours. This text defines precisely what competencies are required, how these can be included in teachers' objectives and how the ability to communicate across cultural differences can be assessed.
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Defining and describing intercultural communicative competence; a model for intercultural communicative competence; objectives for teaching, learning and assessment; curriculum issues; assessment.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781853593772
Publisert
1997-12-11
Utgiver
Vendor
Multilingual Matters
Vekt
194 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Dybde
8 mm
Aldersnivå
05, 06, UP, P
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
136

Forfatter

Biographical note

Michael Byram taught languages in secondary school and adult education. At Durham University since 1980, now emeritus, he has researched the education of linguistic minorities and foreign language education. His most recent book is From Foreign Language Education to Education for Intercultural Citizenship (Multilingual Matters) and he is the editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning.