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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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Álvarez Valencia, José Aldemar – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2014
The steadfast spread of English as the dominant world language has heightened the need to integrate culture in the foreign language teaching (FLT) curriculum, but how does this process crystallize in countries such as Colombia? The results of this review provide insight on the status of the intercultural perspective in FLT in Colombia by looking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Periodicals, Qualitative Research, Intercultural Communication
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Mor, Walkyria Monte – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2006
This paper is a report of a research project on critical multiliteracies and multimodality in Brazilian education. In the context of a growing concern for the construction of images in contemporary society, the paper discusses the interrelations between image, language and interpretation. The specific object of the investigation described below is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Literacy Education, Films
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Chew, William L., III – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2006
Image studies, or imagology, was traditionally subsumed under the uncritical notion of "national character", which was itself replaced by the constructivist term "national stereotype". Since its origins in comparative literature, the field has moved beyond the narrow disciplinary confines of the humanities, with their predominantly qualitative…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Stereotypes, Research Methodology, Statistical Analysis