Mediating Languages and Cultures

The history of "language teaching" is shot through with methods and approaches to language learning - most recently with "communicative language teaching" - but this book demonstrates that a more differentiated and richer understanding of learning a foreign language is both necessary and desirable. Languages and cultures are interlinked and interdependent and their teaching and learning should be too. Learning another language is part of a complex process of learning and understanding other people's ways of life, ways of thinking and socio-economic experience.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853590711
• ISBN13: 9781853590719
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"