Meeting Foreignness (eBook)

Foreign Languages and Foreign Language Education as Critical and Intercultural Experiences

Paola Giorgis (Autor)

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2018
142 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6051-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The purpose of the book is to highlight the critical and intercultural potential of foreign languages and foreign language education. The book addresses the complexity of the experience of (foreign) languages and offers both theoretical interdisciplinary suggestions and applied examples of activities.

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How is Foreignness defined by language? Who has the power to define the 'foreigner' as such, on which grounds, from which positioning, for which purposes? And within such premises, which is the role of foreign languages in defining, or challenging, Foreignness? This book reflects on the concept of Foreignness from a special lens, that of foreign languages and Foreign Language Education. Advancing that the experience of foreignness that foreign languages foreground opens up to a different apprehension of the self and the others, this work shows how such experience can problematize, question, and challenge meanings, assumptions, conceptualizations and representations ordinarily taken-for-granted, a much needed reflection at times when prevailing narratives essentialize individuals and groups according to their linguacultural backgrounds.Though with a global perspective, the book also addresses the Italian context in particular: after introducing a brief historical background, it examines how 'foreignness' is addressed, portrayed, or questioned in contemporary socio-cultural and political debates, and presents practical activities to show how the foreign language can be used for intercultural purposes.An original interdisciplinary approach, combining Critical Linguistics, Foreign Language Education, Intercultural Studies, and Critical Pedagogies, together with works of literature and examples from several fields, integrates theoretical references, practices and research methodologies to take the reader within the complex and fascinating world of languages, displaying how they inform individual and collective identities and representations, and how they can both serve processes of manipulation and domination, as well as those of empowerment and emancipation. For its interdisciplinary and integrated approach, this book aims to address teachers, educators, scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students, but also those readers who are curious to know more about languages, and about how they shape our identities, our meanings and our lives.

Autor

Paola Giorgis teaches English language, literature and visual arts in Italian high schools and holds a PhD in anthropology of education and intercultural education. More info at: - https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/?s=giorgis - http://researching-multilingually-at-borders.com/?page_id=1818 - wom.an.ed - women’s studies in anthropology and education www.womaned.org

Inhalt

IntroductionThe Missing Link: Presenting What, How, from Where and to WhomPart OneWithin Praxis1.The Context1.1Made in Italies1.2Native or Foreign?1.3Languages, Identities, Migrations2.The Educational Perspective2.1The Activities2.1.1Intercultural Grammar2.1.2Intercultural Poetry2.1.3Intercultural Citizenship2.1.4A Comment on the ActivitiesPart TwoWithin Theory1.Introduction: What’s in a Word?2.Foreign3.Language3.1mOther tongue3.2Other Languages3.3Language and Power4.Education4.1Critical Pedagogies5.Critical6.Intercultural6.1Intercultural Education7.ExperiencePart ThreeWithin Research1.Introducing the Research Study2.The Contexts3.The Participants4.Methodology and Data Collecting4.1General Considerations on Methodology4.2Data Collecting: Sampling4.3Some Issues Regarding Data Collecting4.3.1In/Out Issue4.3.2Objectivity/Subjectivity4.3.3Ethical Issues4.4Interviews and Back-talk Focus Groups4.4.1Motivation and Procedures4.4.2Theoretical References5.Analysis of Data5.1Main Principles5.1.1Reflexivity5.1.2Text Construction and Rhetorical Figures5.1.3Dialogue Between the Data and the Framework5.1.4Triangulation and Accountability6.The Findings7.Discussion7.1On the Study7.2On the Research MethodsPart FourMeeting Foreignness. Foreign Language Education as a Critical (and) Intercultural Experience1.Meeting Foreignness2.Foreign Language Education as a Critical (and) Intercultural Experience2.1English and English Language Teaching2.2English as a Foreign Language and English as a Lingua Franca2.3English as a Lingua Franca and English Language Teaching. An Impossible Match?3.Foreign Languages and the Intercultural 4.What’s Next?4.1How to Do ItA Final NoteThe Bigger Picture. A Few Remarks on Some fin-de-siècle Fascinations

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 6 Illustrations including: - 4 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 2 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: anthropology of education • Applied Linguistics • critical cultural linguistics • critical language pedagogy • Cultural Linguistics • English as a foreign language • English language teaching • Foreign Language Education • Intercultural communication • intercultural education • intercultural language pedagogy • Italian EFL education • Multilingualism • Second Language acquisition • Teacher Education
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-6051-2 / 1498560512
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-6051-1 / 9781498560511