Conversations about Language Teaching
"Conversations about Language Teaching" is a podcast of unscripted discussions of language teaching, drawing on both research and classroom & online language teaching. If you like thinking deeply about issues of classroom language teaching and how those relate to research and theory, this podcast might be for you.
Reed & Diane, the hosts, base our knowledge of language teaching on research we've read & done, theoretical views of language acquisition, our experiences as language teachers and learners, and our observations of language teaching in the US and elsewhere. We like to help build bridges among teachers and researchers and view ourselves as part of both communities. We collaborate on projects & like talking about language teaching & learning, and decided to have some of those conversations in a podcast format. Here it is!
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Conversations about Language Teaching
Episode 13: Culture and Language Teaching
Episode 13: Culture and Language Teaching
Show Notes
Claire Kramsch: https://german.berkeley.edu/people/claire-kramsch/
A book chapter she co-authored, including interculturality and “third space”:
Kramsch, C., & Uryu, M. (2020). Intercultural contact, hybridity, and third space. In The Routledge handbook of language and intercultural communication (pp. 204-218). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003036210-16/intercultural-contact-hybridity-third-space-claire-kramsch-michiko-uryu
Bennett’s Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity:
https://organizingengagement.org/models/developmental-model-of-intercultural-sensitivity/
Byram’s model of Intercultural Communicative Competence:
Deardorff’s Intercultural Competence model:
Another prominent scholar on intercultural competence/interculturality is Fantini.
ACTFL’s framework for intercultural learning is described if you scroll down in the standards site here: https://www.actfl.org/educator-resources/world-readiness-standards-for-learning-languages/standards-summary
More about development of intercultural learning within ACTFL’s framework is found on pp. 15-16 of this open access document: https://www.actfl.org/uploads/files/general/Resources-Publications/Novice-Can-Do_Statements.pdf
Intercultural Can-Dos and reflection guides for students can be found open access here: https://www.actfl.org/uploads/files/general/Resources-Publications/Intercultural-Can-Dos_Reflections-Scenarios.pdf
Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo
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