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Zoreda, Margaret Lee – 1998
This paper discusses Wilga Rivers' seven language teaching objectives. Particular focus is on the following three language teaching objectives: (1) giving students the experience of expressing themselves linguistically and culturally in a context different from that in which they grew up; (2) fostering students' understanding of other peoples'…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, Educational Objectives, Educational Theories
Zoreda, Margaret Lee – 1998
Drawing on writings by recent post-modernist thinkers and semioticians, this paper focuses on a combination of hermeneutic and semiotic viewpoints and applies them to defining the nature of interpretation in an educational setting (e.g., text interpretation), the interpreter, and the essence of the act of comprehension and interpretation. The main…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories