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Direct linkStarkey-Perret, Rebecca; Narcy-Combes, Marie-Françoise – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2017
This contribution gives an account of the results of an action research in which a task-based plurilingual programme was implemented with postgraduate students of Foreign Languages and International Business. Using a mixed-methods approach, combining questionnaire, interview and observation data, we sought to explore the degree to which the…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Cooperative Learning
Helot, Christine; Young, Andrea – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2005
This paper will present an analysis of the notion of cultural and linguistic diversity in the new curriculum for primary schools in France (MEN, 2003). First, it will explain how this notion is linked both to a wider choice of languages and to the teaching of one foreign or regional language only. We shall argue that, despite the wide theoretical…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Cultural Awareness
Peer reviewedCain, Albane – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1996
Discusses the semistructured interview as a vehicle to understand the experience of taking an inservice education course in a foreign country through the eyes of the participants. This article demonstrates the details of the process based on two corpora of interviews with teachers of French as a Foreign Language studying in France, and with French…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Discourse Analysis, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedCain, Albane; Zarate, Genevieve – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1996
Suggests an evaluation framework for language teachers' inservice courses regarding the degree to which they offer participants the opportunity to become more open to "otherness." The article describes training courses in five European countries and examines how they typically bring participants into contact with natives of another…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Case Studies, Context Effect, Cultural Awareness
Peer reviewedByram, Michael – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1996
Using interviews with primary school teachers from France who are living and working in Portugal as examples, this article argues that the informal, in-depth interview process helps the interviewee develop a new understanding of the experiences in focus. The idea is discussed of introducing this function of the interview into inservice training…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Concept Formation, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedKramsch, Claire; And Others – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1996
Analyzes the social and historical reasons for the pervasive resistance among foreign language teachers in three countries to go beyond linguistic training and the anecdotal transmission of cultural facts. The article sketches the principles of a discourse-based pedagogy that views culture as language and language as culture. (36 references)…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
