Arts, language and intercultural education

intercultural sensitivity instruction and interfaces among iranian efl learners intercultural sensitivity,language proficiency,ehnic and demograhic backgrounds:an ethnocentrism vs.ethnorelativism perspective

monumental changes occurring on a daily basis have altered the world into a global village of expanding technology and shrinking geography in which preparing language learners for intercultural communication seems to be a sine qua non for modern language education. employing a cross-sectional design in its first phase, this study investigated the intercultural sensitivity and language proficien...

English Language and Literature Program Department of English Education Program Faculty of Language and Arts Education Indonesia University of Education

Course Description As the name suggests this subject introduces students to the basic concepts of English grammar. It begins with the issues in the basic sentence constructions, followed by the discussions on elements of sentences. Lectures and discussions will continue to review the topics on word-classes (nouns and verbs), noun expansions (heads, dependents, and adjectives), linking words (pr...

Bilingual intercultural education in Ecuador : education as a means of language revitalization

Culture and Language Education

There are different views on the relationship between language and culture. Some consider them as separate entities one being a code-system and the other a system of beliefs and attitudes. Some believe in a cause and effect relationship between the two; and yet others argue for a co-evolutionary mode of interrelation. This paper will subscribe to the Hallidayan co-evolutionary view of the relat...

ICT, Enterprise Education and Intercultural Learning

Little attention has been paid to the role of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in enabling schools to work together in joint enterprise partnerships. This article reports on a school-based enterprise initiative which involved both primary and secondary school teachers working across an international frontier. The main findings of this research show that when ICT was used to link schoo...