Developing intercultural competence in practice /
Contributor(s): Byram, Michael | Nichols, Adam | Stevens, David.
Series: Languages for intercultural communication and education: 1.Publisher: Clevedon, England ; Buffalo, N.Y. : Multilingual Matters, c2001Description: viii, 283 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1853595373 (alk. paper); 9781853595370:; 9781853595370 (alk. paper); 1853595365 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9781853595363 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Intercultural communication -- Study and teaching | Language acquisition | Multicultural education | Language and culture | Language and languages -- Study and teachingDDC classification: 370.117Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 370.117 BYR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0077355 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-281) and index.
The international partnership program / Carol Morgan -- Teaching intercultural communicative competence through literature / Eva Burwitz-Melzer -- 'Up the hills of identity' / Elena Tarasheva and Leah Davcheva -- Visual codes and modes of presentation of television news broadcasts / Maria Metodieva Genova -- An approach to implementing a cultural studies syllabus / Iskra Georgieva -- 'Family life' and 'regional identity' -- comparative studies while learning French / Sylvia Duffy and Janet Mayes -- 'It must be cultural because I don't do it' : cultural awareness in initial TESOL teacher education / Mary Williams -- Virtual intercultural competence : a programme for Japanese elementary school students / Lynne Parmenter and Yuichi Tomita -- Students as virtual ethnographers : exploring the language culture-connection / Sheila Carel -- Working in tandem : an Anglo-French project / Clare Dodd -- New tools for old tricks : information and communication technology in teaching British cultural studies / Paul Whittaker -- Tandem learning as an intercultural activity / Jane Woodin -- 'Why do Danes put their elderly in nursing homes?' -- Working outside the classroom with adult second language learners / Judith Parsons and Peter Junge -- Cultural understanding in Danish schools / Leon Aktor and Karen Risager -- 'I thought my teacher fancied me' / Tanya Madjarova, Magdalena Botsmanova and Tanya Stamatova -- British and Bulgarian Christmas cards : a research project for students / Krassimira Topuzova -- Study of landscapes as an approach to openness to others / Françoise Vigneron.
This text gives examples of good practice in intercultural competence in a variety of subjects, and illustrates the importance of combining theory and practice.