دانلود کتاب رویکردی بین فرهنگی به آموزش زبان انگلیسی

This book describes an approach to English language teaching (ELT) that puts at its centre the idea that speakers from diverse backgrounds negotiate different cultures as well as different languages. Moreover, the book argues that the exploration of familiar and unfamiliar cultures can be a driving force of English language education. While this is hardly a new approach to language education, it has never been uncontroversial. Part of the continuing controversy about this approach to language education is the fact that ‘culture’ itself is a much disputed and endlessly debated concept. The opening chapters therefore consider the ways in which culture has been understood by scholars in a number of academic disciplines from which English language educators have drawn inspiration. These disciplines include linguistics, communication studies, anthropology and literary, media and cultural studies – as well as some sub-disciplines within them, such as linguistic anthropology, ethnography and sociolinguistics. The purpose of the first two chapters in this book is to offer a brief summary of each of these disciplines. By doing so, I aim to alert the reader to some long-standing questions around ‘culture’ that language teachers who are interested in this approach need to address, and to suggest how the answers to these questions might shape practices in language education.