From Foreign Language Education to Education for Intercultural Citizenship: Essays and ReflectionsThis collection of essays and reflections starts from an analysis of the purposes of foreign language teaching and argues that this should include educational objectives which are ultimately similar to those of education for citizenship. It does so by a journey through reflections on what is possible and desirable in the classroom and how language teaching has a specific role in education systems which have long had, and often still have, the purpose of encouraging young people to identify with the nation-state. Foreign language education can break through this framework to introduce a critical internationalism. In a ‘globalised’ and ‘internationalised’ world, the importance of identification with people beyond the national borders is crucial. Combined with education for citizenship, foreign language education can offer an education for ‘intercultural citizenship’. |
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Purposes for Foreign Language Education | 21 |
Possibilities | 44 |
Is Language Learning Possible at School? | 51 |
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ability acquire acquisition action analysis argues assessment attitudes become bicultural Byram Chapter citizenship education classroom Clevedon co-operation cognitive Comenius programme communicative competence community of action concept context Council of Europe countries create critical cultural awareness crucial curriculum democracy dimension discussion Doyé education for intercultural education system emphasis English ethnic European identity European Union evaluative example explicit focus foreign language education foreign language learning foreign language teaching framework globalisation Himmelmann important individual interaction intercultural citizenship intercultural communicative intercultural competence intercultural experience intercultural speaker interlocutor involved Japan Japanese knowledge language and culture learners lingua franca linguistic competence Multilingual Matters national identity national language native speaker one's interlocutor's orientation perspective plurilingual political education potential practice propositional knowledge purposes question relationship Risager secondary socialisation skills social groups social identities Strasbourg teachers teaching and learning tertiary socialisation tion transnational community understanding