The International Classroom: Challenging the Notion

ISBN-13: 9783631538029 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 244 str.

Vittorina Cecchetto;Magda Stroinska

Spis treści

Contents: Vittorina Cecchetto/Magda Stroinska: Introduction: Challenging the Notion of International Classroom - Jenny Thomas: Pragmatics in the foreign language classroom - Jim Miller: Clash of language, clash of cultures - Naiting Dong: You Just Can't Guess: Vocabulary acquisition in Chinese ESL learners - Gail Langley: Teaching international students: How can staff improve the experience of international students in UK Higher Education? - Thomas T. Ristimaki: Knowledge, culture and classrooms - Stephan Lloyd Smith: 'If Bees make Honey, then maybe Wasps make Marmalade': Detecting Shared Methodological Spaces in the Childish Method of Others - Magda Stroinska: Motivation and anxiety: on the journey to academic success - Larissa Faulkner: Obstacles to Listening in the International Classroom - Tsuneko Iwai: Cooperative Learning: Students scaffolding in a linguistically and culturally diverse university JFL class - Gabriele Müller: Committing to 'Third Space': Teaching Film in the International Classroom - Stan Brown: Religion, International Students, and the Secular University in the UK - François Nectoux: Teaching international politics to students of multiple origins: Issues of intercultural politics - Anna L. Moro: Inclusivity and critical language awareness in an introductory linguistics course - Philip Booth/Krzysztof Stroinski: Teaching professionalism and the principles of the market economy in post-communist Eastern Europe - Vittorina Cecchetto: "We don't talk about that." Intercultural communication issues in an academic setting.

O autorze

The Editors: Vittorina Cecchetto teaches Italian and Linguistics at McMaster University in Canada. Her research interests include the genesis of immigrant contact languages in a multicultural society, the linguistic and identity problems of first and second generation immigrants, didactic stereotyping in second language instruction and language attrition in the aging immigrants.
Magda Stroinska teaches Linguistics and German at McMaster University in Canada. Her major areas of research include cross-cultural and interpersonal communication, cognitive linguistics, language of propaganda and problems of communication in the aging multicultural population.