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Poirier, Francois – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1993
A trait of the scholarly tradition of France is explication de texte, associated in the past with philology and the translation of classical texts. This tradition reemerges as a compromise between demands of the communicative approach for practical language skills and the broader linguistic and cultural objectives of foreign language learning.…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education