Language Variation in Foreign Language Teaching: On the Road to Communicative Competence

ISBN-13: 9783631531921 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 154 str.

Ammon, Ulrich

Spis treści

Contents : Language variation in foreign language teaching - Awareness of and attitudes toward language variation - Language, culture and communication - Learner-centered instruction - Language planning for communicative competence.

O autorze

The Author: Claudia Kunschak received her Master's degree in translation and interpreting from the University of Vienna in 1992. After several years of teaching languages at universities in Europe and the USA, she complemented her training with a Ph.D. in education and foreign language teaching at the University of Arizona in 2003. For the past two years, she has been teaching translation and general language classes at the Universidad Europea de Madrid. Her research interests include language variation, curriculum development, evaluation, and language planning.