Developing critical cultural awareness in modern languages : a comparative study of higher education in North America and the United Kingdom /: a comparative study of higher education in North America and the United Kingdom. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Elinor Parks.
• Authors: Parks, Elinor, 1983-
• Contents: Introduction; 1. Problematising the separation between language and content in UK and US Modern Language degrees; 2. Language graduates with ‘deep translingual and transcultural competence’; 3. Fostering Criticality and Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) in Higher Education; 4. Exploring faculty and students’ views on the ML curriculum and students’ development of critical cultural awareness and criticality; 5. Observed differences and similarities between British and American universities; 6. Fostering criticality development; 7. The development of intercultural competence and critical cultural awareness; 8. Defining and contextualising two emerging new competencies: communicative criticality and savoir se reconnaître; 9. Towards a new understanding of language degrees and critical cultural awareness: Implications for theory, research and practice
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 418.00711; Languages, Modern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Cross-cultural studies; Languages, Modern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Great Britain; Languages, Modern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States; Cultural awareness; Multicultural education
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000026177; 9781000034165; 9781000026122; 9780429341236
• Related ISBNs: 9780367357085
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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