Languages for intercultural communication and education

For Maria Augusta Rodrigues Alves
O problema de uma língua internacional é uma questão de arrependimento.
Quando recorremos a essa forma de língua, não estamos, na verdade, à procura de
nada de novo, mas daquilo que perdemos.
The problem of an international language is a problem of remorse. When we seek such a
language, we are seeking, indeed, not what will be new, but what we lost.
Fendando Pessoa,
‘Língua Internacional’
in
A Língua Portuguesa
(São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 1997)

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Contents
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
Foreword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
1 An Intercultural Approach to Second Language Education . . . . . 1
2 Implementing an Intercultural Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
3 Culture and Conversational English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
4 Culture and Written Genres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
5 Ethnographic Approaches to Culture and Language . . . . . . . . 94
6 Exploring Culture Through Interviews. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
7 Developing Visual Literacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
8 Using Literary, Media and Cultural Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
9 Assessing Intercultural Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
10 Prospects for Teaching and Learning Language and Culture . . . 205
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
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Intercultural Approaches to ELT
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