Post 9/11: Foreign Languages between Knowledge and Power

Autor/in	Kramsch, Claire
Titel	Post 9/11: Foreign Languages between Knowledge and Power
Quelle	In: Applied Linguistics, 26 (2005) 4, S.545-567 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-6001
Schlagwörter	Second Languages; Language Research; Political Power; National Security; Applied Linguistics; Language Proficiency; Communicative Competence (Languages); Intercultural Communication + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Second language; Zweitsprache; Sprachforschung; Politische Macht; National territory; Security; Staatsgebiet; Sicherheit; Linguistics; Linguistik; Angewandte Linguistik; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Communicative competence; Languages; Kommunikative Kompetenz; Sprache; Interkulturelle Kommunikation
Abstract	This paper reviews briefly the close relationship that foreign language research has sustained with social and political power since the emergence of applied linguistics as a field of scientific inquiry and, more recently, with the demands of economic competitiveness and national security. It examines two debates that capture well the conflicting demands currently placed on foreign language researchers and educators: the demand by a global economy for both communicative and intercultural competence, and the demand by the U.S. government for speakers with "advanced levels" of language proficiency to serve the needs of national security. It argues that applied linguistic research, in its efforts to build a theory of practice, should reflect on its own conditions of possibility and openly discuss with practitioners not only the categorization, but also the framing, of real-world problems. (Author).
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