Mediating Languages and Cultures (Multilingual Matters, 60)
Multilingual Matters | November 1 1990 | 344 pages | English | ISBN : 1853590703,1853590702 | PDF | 1.8MB
The history of "language teaching" is shot through with methods and approaches to language learning - most recently with "communicative language teaching" - but this book demonstrates that a more differentiated and richer understanding of learning a foreign language is both necessary and desirable. Languages and cultures are interlinked and interdependent and their teaching and learning should be too. Learning another language is part of a complex process of learning and understanding other people's ways of life, ways of thinking and socio-economic experience