Intercultural Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Contexts

Romanowski, Piotr · Bandura, Ewa

febr. del 2019 · IGI Global

Sobre aquest llibre

While research into intercultural teaching has grown exponentially during the past two decades, the research has primarily resorted to the use of quantitative data collection instruments and the interpretation of scores calculated through them. As such, studies in the field can seem somewhat decontextualized, ignoring in some cases setting-specific parameters. Therefore, further study is needed to bring together theory, research, and practice demonstrating how this teaching is reflected in research design and how it is undertaken in different settings.

Intercultural Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Contexts is an essential reference source that provides a series of rich insights into the way intercultural education is practiced in numerous international contexts and showcases practical examples of teaching situations and classroom activities that demonstrate its impact within the classroom. Featuring research on topics such as higher education, multilingualism, and professionalism, this book is ideally designed for educators, researchers, administrators, professionals, academicians, and students seeking pedagogical guidance on intercultural teaching.

Sobre l'autor

Piotr Romanowski is Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Applied Linguistics of the University of Warsaw, Poland. His background is in TESOL and he earned a PhD in Linguistics from the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. His main areas of scholarly interest include: bi-/multilingual education, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics and intercultural communication. He is the author of over forty scholarly works. He has published with such prominent publishers as Peter Lang, Springer, Cambridge Scholars, etc. He has lectured in Canada, the United States, Great Britain, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan. He is the founding member and president of MultiLingNet (2017-2021) – an international association grouping scholars who share an interest in multilingualism.

Ewa Bandura, a senior lecturer in the Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, has been involved in foreign language teacher training for over twenty years. She defended her PhD in applied linguistics at the University of Warsaw. Her research interests include: the intercultural dimension in educational policies and foreign language teaching, and more recently, fostering criticality as a transversal competence through foreign language education. She has participated in several educational and research projects initiated by the British Council, Cultnet (an international research group founded by Prof. M. Byram at University of Durham, UK) and EU-US Atlantis Programme. She has been a member (recently a member of the Committee) of the Association for Language Awareness. She has published with Tertium, Multilingual Matters, Peter Lang, Cambridge Scholars, and Information Age Publishing.

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