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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Are We There yet? Intercultural Encounters with British Studies
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Dasli, Maria – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2012
This paper aims to contribute to the current debate on British Studies from the perspective of eight international students attending a British Studies module in part completion of a foundation/access programme in the UK. Drawing on three sets of in-depth student interviews and 15 classroom observations used to triangulate findings, the analysis…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes
Authenticity, Culture and Language Learning
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MacDonald, Malcolm N.; Badger, Richard; Dasli, Maria – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2006
In philosophy, authenticity has been used with two meanings: one entails the notion of correspondence; the other entails the notion of genesis (Cooper, 1983: 15). As in certain branches of philosophy, language teaching has perhaps clung too long to the first of these notions of authenticity at the expense of the other. This paper reviews four key…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Applied Linguistics, Second Language Instruction, Philosophy