Mångkulturella aspekter på språkundervisningens kommunikativa praktiker : En konferensrapport

• Multicultural Aspects of Communication in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning Practices. Report from a Conference. This report presents the paper-session contributions to an international conference on foreign language pedagogy held in October 2004, titled “The Multicultural Foreign Language Classroom: An Arena for Democratic Experiences”. The conference, organized by the Department of Education, Örebro University, and the Swedish journal Utbildning & demokrati (Education & Democracy), was first documented in a special English edition (2004/3) of the journal, presenting the lectures given by the international keynote speakers. By contrast, this second conference report, published within the Swedish Research Council project “Education as Deliberative Communication” (“Utbildning som deliberativ kommunikation”) offers an overview of contemporary research in the field of foreign language pedagogy and didactics in Sweden, including, among other things, ethnographically inspired research into communicative and cultural aspects of classroom conversation about literature, as well as investigations into the attitudes and beliefs of a large number of European language teachers concerning the content of the teaching of “intercultural competence”. The report also presents a section where the involvement of multicultural learners is explored from different perspectives, such as everyday language teaching and learning practices in various educational contexts as well as different aspects of test design and construction, as exemplified by the Swedish National Test of English and the Swedish Scholastic Assessment Test (SweSAT). Despite the variety of the contributions offered, the multicultural foreign language classroom as an arena for democratic experiences provides the common denominator also in this second report.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Pedagogik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Pedagogy (hsv//eng)

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foreign language pedagogy

cultural processes

cultural involvement

democracy.

Education

Pedagogik

SOCIAL SCIENCES

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP

Social sciences

Socialvetenskap

Pedagogik

Education

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