Language education and intercultural style

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...

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...

M. Guilherme Critical Citizens for an Intercultural World: Foreign Language Education as Cultural Politics

This is the third book in a series on ‘Languages for intercultural communication and education’, whose acronym is divided between the spine and front cover of the volume so that it is less obvious that it spells ‘LICE’. The book itself is the sort one might either love or hate. A few years ago I would have been put off by its rather abstract discussion of such things as Critical Pedagogy and Po...