Product Overview
From Follett
Includes bibliographical references (page 268-289) and index. Explores the educational challenges of language teaching, examines the contexts of speech and social interaction, looks at problems and paradoxes in teaching the spoken language and literary text, and discusses authentic texts and contexts and language teaching along the cultural faultline.
From the Publisher
This is an attempt to redraw the boundaries of foreign language study. It focuses attention not just on cultural knowledge as a necessary aspect of communicative competence, but as an educational objective in its own right, as an end as well as a means of language learning. Winner MLA Kenneth W Mildenberger Prize