Context and Culture in Language Teaching

Oxford Applied Linguistics

by Claire Kramsch

This book focuses attention on cultural knowledge not just as a necessary aspect of communicative competence, but as an educational objective in its own right-as an end, as well as a means, of language learning.

Genres: Linguistics, Language

304 pages, Paperback

First published June 17, 1993

About the author

Claire J. Kramsch has been Professor of German and Foreign Language Acquisition at the University of Berkeley since 1989. She is also director of the Berkeley Language Centre and teaches in the School of Education. Her fields of interest are second language acquisition, applied linguistics, discourse analysis and social and cultural theory.

Claire Kramsch is co-editor of Applied Linguistics, author of Language and Culture and the award-winning Context and Culture in Language Teaching published by Oxford University Press.

In 1998, the President of Germany awarded Claire Kramsch the coveted Goethe Medal of the Goethe Institute for her achievements in promoting intercultural understanding between Germany and the U.S.A.

Reviews

[M. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some ideas need to be updated as this is a book published in 1993 –now we live in an intercultural, cross-cultural and multicultural world due to the huge development of technology and means of communication, among other aspects– and our world as we know it has changed a lot ever since. Nevertheless, there are many ideas and concepts that are common ground to the current educational context and that I find quite interesting, as well as proposals and case studies.

[Niratisaya · Rating 3 out of 5]

salah satu buku yang dengan 'terpaksa' masuk ke dalam list. learned a lot from this book about language learning and the relation with culture, but it doesn't satisfy my curiousity, yet. *rowing my boat to another book*

How I really wish, saya punya kesempatan ke luar negeri. Bukan untuk jalan2, tapi beli buku!