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von Münchow, Patricia – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2015
"Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" (Chua, 2011) and "Bringing up bébé: One American mother discovers the wisdom of French parenting" (Druckerman, 2012) are two recent global bestsellers belonging to a relatively new discursive genre: the intercultural parenting book. The purpose of this article is to present the first findings…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Books, Cultural Influences
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Culpeper, Jonathan; Crawshaw, Robert; Harrison, Julia – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2008
This paper aims to enhance our understanding of interactions between French/English Foreign Language Assistants (FLAs) and their school mentors (MEs), and, more specifically, of how "advice" is sought, given and received. More generally, it will articulate a pragmatic approach (employing the notion of "activity type") that can…
Descriptors: Mentors, Intercultural Communication, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries