Pluricentric Languages and Language Education: Pedagogical Implications and Innovative Approaches to Language Teaching

ISBN-13: 9781032156965 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 240 str.

Callies, Marcus

Opis

This book maps out the pedagogical implications of the global spread and diversification of pluricentric languages for language education and showcases new approaches that can take account of linguistic diversity.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Pluricentric Languages and Language Education – Implications and Innovations  Part I: Pluricentricity and Language Teaching: Addressing a Conceptual Interface 2. Pluricentric Languages and the Teaching of Spanish and French: Strengthening Disciplinary Links  3. Integrating Linguistic Diversity into English Language Teaching: Challenges in Implementing a Pluricentric Approach  4. Transfering Pluricentric Approaches from the Teaching of Portuguese and Vietnamese: A Comparative Approach to Dealing with Dialectal Variation in School Languages  Part II: Pluricentric Languages and Aspects of Linguistic Variation in Language Education: Awareness, Beliefs, and Attitudes  5. Moving from Awareness and Understanding to Tolerance and Promotion? On Spanish Teacher Students’ Knowledge of and Attitudes Towards Language Variation  6. Pre-service Teachers and Their Awareness of Varieties of Spanish  7. Specific Preferences vs. Inclusive Foreign Language Education: (Pre-service) Teachers’ Implicit Attitudes Towards Varieties of English  8. Encounters with Englishes: Language Learning Biographies as a Window to Teacher Students’ Cognitions  9. Creating Awareness of Pluricentricity at University Language Departments: A Case Study of Dutch  Part III: New Approaches to Teaching and Learning Pluricentric Languages 10. German as a Pluricentric Language in Teacher Education at the Universities of Rio de Janeiro  11. Language Corpora and the Teaching and Learning of English as an International Language  12. Pluricentric Language Teaching and World Englishes-informed Curriculum Design for Teacher Training Programs  13. Pluricentric Languages in University Teacher Education: Towards Increased Curricular Coherence  Afterword: Who Is Afraid of Pluricentric Perspectives?