Languages in a Global World [E-Book]: Learning for Better Cultural Understanding / edited by Bruno Della Chiesa, Jessica Scott and Christina Hinton
The rise of globalisation makes language competencies more valuable, both at individual and societal levels. This book examines the links between globalisation and the way we teach and learn languages. It begins by asking why some individuals are more successful than others at learning non-native la...
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Personal Name(s): | Della Chiesa, Bruno. |
Scott , Jessica. / Hinton, Christina. | |
Imprint: |
Paris :
OECD Publishing,
2012
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Physical Description: |
470 p. ; 21x28cm. |
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englisch |
ISBN: |
9789264123557 |
DOI: |
10.1787/9789264123557-en |
Series Title: |
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Educational Research and Innovation
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Education |
- Foreword
- List of contributors
- Key concepts and acronyms
- Preface
- Executive summary
- Introduction
- Learning languages in a globalising world
- Motivation and second language acquisition
- Motivational theories on language learning
- Economic incentives for language acquisition
- Bilingual education policy and language learning in Estonia and Singapore
- Seeing the world through our hands
- Ideologies and alphabet reforms in Central Asia
- Verlan, l'envers
- Cochlear implants, deaf culture and narrowly defined cultural characteristics
- Neuroscientific research and the study of sign language
- Competencies in Canada in a globalisation context
- Catalan language policy and the challenge of new immigration
- Education and creativity in Tanzania
- English as a multicultural language for international communication in Asia
- Language education in Japan and Korea
- Language learning and Chamorro culture in Guam
- Language learning in Peru
- Why study abroad? Why not!
- Migrants, language and education
- Migrants, early tracking and social mobility
- How the Mexican education system contributes to emigration
- Intercultural or multicultural education in Europe and the United States
- Cosmopolitan education
- Music as an underutilised and underappreciated tool for language learning
- "Expansion of our own being"
- Epilogue.