Teaching Foreign Languages in an Era of Globalization: Introduction

Through its mobility of people and capital, its global technologies, and its global information networks, globalization has changed the conditions under which foreign languages (FLs) are taught, learned, and used. It has destabilized the codes, norms, and conventions that FL educators relied upon to...

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Published in:The Modern language journal (Boulder, Colo.) Colo.), 2014-03, Vol.98 (1), p.296-311
Main Author: Kramsch, Claire
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
communicative competence
complexity
Global communication
Global education
Globalization
Language
Modernist art
Multilingualism
Nonnative languages
Pedagogy
reflexivity
Second language learning
symbolic competence
World language instruction
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Summary:Through its mobility of people and capital, its global technologies, and its global information networks, globalization has changed the conditions under which foreign languages (FLs) are taught, learned, and used. It has destabilized the codes, norms, and conventions that FL educators relied upon to help learners be successful users of the language once they had left their classrooms. These changes call for a more reflective, interpretive, historically grounded, and politically engaged pedagogy than was called for by the communicative language teaching of the eighties. This special issue will explore how we are to conceive of such a pedagogy.
ISSN:0026-7902
1540-4781
DOI:10.1111/j.1540-4781.2014.12057.x