Language Awareness and (Critical) Cultural Awareness--Relationships, Comparisons and Contrasts

Autor/in	Byram, Michael
Titel	Language Awareness and (Critical) Cultural Awareness--Relationships, Comparisons and Contrasts
Quelle	In: Language Awareness, 21 (2012) 1-2, S.5-13 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0965-8416
DOI	10.1080/09658416.2011.639887
Schlagwörter	Multicultural Education; Metalinguistics; Cultural Awareness; Lifelong Learning; Foreign Countries; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Comparative Analysis; Second Language Learning; Correlation; Language of Instruction; Teaching Methods; Intercultural Communication + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Multikulturelle Erziehung; Metalanguage; Metasprache; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Ausland; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Korrelation; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Interkulturelle Kommunikation
Abstract	The vexed question of the relationship between "language" and "culture" will be the starting point. I do not propose to "resolve" the question but to consider some ways in which relationships between cultural awareness and language awareness might be conceptualised and then have some impact on language education. By "language education" I refer to the teaching and learning of all languages in a curriculum, whether this be the synchronic experienced curriculum of a learner at a given point in time or the diachronic curriculum of their lifelong learning. I will draw on the Council of Europe's concept and platform for "Languages in Education, Languages of Education" and plurilingual and intercultural education to provide an overview of the issues involved. Finally, I will consider the impact on teaching and learning in practice by suggesting that, in the best cases, language and culture teaching produces, through the development of linguistic and intercultural competence, alternative conceptualisations of the world and contributes to the education/"Bildung" of the individual in society. (Contains 5 notes and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10