Foreign Language in a Dialogue and Monologue With Culture: A Case Study of One Foreign Language Classroom from Bakhtinian and Vygotskian Perspectives - Couverture souple

Collings, Natalia

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ISBN 10 : 3836424843 ISBN 13 : 9783836424844

Editeur : VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K., 2007

Synopsis

Teachers and researches of language have dedicated years of work to understanding the relationship between language and culture. This book is yet another contribution to this endevour. It represents an ethnographic account of how students of a large public American university in the Midwest learned Russian language and culture. The findings are presented in the light of the theoretical framework based on Bakhtinian understanding of dialogue and monologue in culture and Vygotskian understanding of practice, offering an interpretation of language learning as a unique individual practice, and culture as a multidimensional phenomenon co-constructed in a dialogue, but a dialogue often constrained by the monologic genres of human interaction. Its goals is to help teachers think of new ways of creatively weaving cultural knowledge into their unique pedagogies and to introduce an international research community to a new piece of data and theory driven evidence of how languge and culture are connected.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Revision with unchanged content. Teachers and researches of language have dedicated years of work to unders­tanding the relationship between language and culture. This book is yet another contribution to this endevour. It represents an ethnographic account of how students of a large public American university in the Midwest learned Russian language and culture. The findings are presented in the light of the theoretical framework based on Bakhtinian understanding of dialogue and monologue in culture and Vygotskian understanding of practice, offering an interpretation of language learning as a unique individual practice, and culture as a multidimensional phenomenon co-constructed in a dialogue, but a dialogue often constrained by the monologic genres of human interaction. Its goals is to help teachers think of new ways of creatively weaving cultural knowledge into their unique pedagogies and to introduce an international research community to a new piece of data and theory driven evidence of how languge and culture are connected.

Biographie de l'auteur

Ph. D. in Learning, Technology and Culture from Michigan State University. Currently an Asistant Professor at Central Michigan University. Teaches courses in Educational Psychology and is involved in study abroad. Research focus on Language and Culture, applying Bakhtinian and Vygotskian perspectives in Education.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3836424843
• ISBN 13: 9783836424844
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible