Cosmopolitan Speakers and Their Cultural Cartographies

Autor/in	Ros i Solé, Cristina
Titel	Cosmopolitan Speakers and Their Cultural Cartographies
Quelle	In: Language Learning Journal, 41 (2013) 3, S.326-339 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0957-1736
DOI	10.1080/09571736.2013.836349
Schlagwörter	Second Language Learning; Self Concept; Intercultural Communication; Computer Simulation; Empathy; Second Language Instruction; Teaching Methods; Cultural Awareness; Semitic Languages; Serbocroatian; Ethnography; Personal Narratives; Learning Motivation; Student Attitudes; Multilingualism; Romance Languages; Learning Theories; Adult Students; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zweitsprachenerwerb; Selbstkonzept; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Computergrafik; Computersimulation; Empathie; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Arabisch; Hebräisch; Serbokroatisch; Ethnografie; Erlebniserzählung; Motivation for studies; Lernmotivation; Schülerverhalten; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Romanische Sprache; Learning theory; Lerntheorie; Adult; Adults; Student; Students; Erwachsenenalter; Studentin; Schüler; Schülerin; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	Language learners' increased mobility and the ubiquity of virtual intercultural encounters has challenged traditional ideas of "cultures". Moreover, representations of cultures as consumable life-choices has meant that learners are no longer locked into standard and static cultural identities. Language learners are better defined as cosmopolitan individuals with subjective and complex socio-political and historical identities. Such models push the boundaries of current concepts in language pedagogy to new understandings of who the language learner is and a refashioning of the cultural maps they inhabit. This article presents a model for cultural understanding that draws on the theoretical framework of Beck's Cosmopolitan Vision and its related concepts of "Banal Cosmopolitanism" and "Cosmopolitan Empathy". Narrative accounts are used to illustrate the experience of a group of students of Arabic and Serbian/Croatian and their use of the cultural resources at their disposal to construct their own subjective cosmopolitan life-worlds. Through the analysis of learners' everyday cultural practices inside and outside the educational environment, the scope of the intercultural experience is revisited and a new paradigm for the language learner is presented. The Cosmopolitan Speaker (CS) described in this article is a subject who adopts a "flâneur"-like disposition to reflect on and scrutinise the target culture. Armed with this highly personal interpretation of reality, CSs will be able to take part in their own cultural trajectories and imagine and "figure" their own cartography of the world. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10