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Affordances, Complexities, and Challenges of Intercultural Citizenship for Foreign Language Teachers
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Porto, Melina – Foreign Language Annals, 2019
This article explores the intercultural and citizenship dimensions of foreign language teaching and discusses, in particular, the implications for foreign language teaching and teacher education. The work (1) extends the fundamental concepts that were developed by Byram and Wagner (2018) in this journal--that foreign language education has…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teacher Education
Toward an Understanding of the Relationship between Classroom Climate and Performance in Postsecondary French: An Application of the Classroom Climate Inventory
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Gascoigne, Carolyn – Foreign Language Annals, 2012
This article investigates the relationship between classroom climate and performance in postsecondary French as it is generated by student-to-student connections and interaction, rather than instructor-to-student interaction. The study applies an instrument originally developed to measure classroom climate in native language public speaking…
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Correlation, Group Dynamics, Classroom Communication
Teaching Sensitivity to Cultural Difference in the First-Year Foreign Language Classroom
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Durocher, Dennis O., Jr. – Foreign Language Annals, 2007
This article summarizes teacher action research for the teaching of subjective culture in the foreign language classroom. It begins with a literature review, followed by a description of Milton J. Bennett's Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (Bennett, 1993), the theoretical paradigm upon which classroom activities and experiments…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Models, Elementary Education, French