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Villacañas de Castro, Luis S. – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2015
This research set out to explore what the author interpreted as a interpreted as a pedagogical shortcoming in the intercultural understanding (IU) model of cultural awareness, which prevails in foreign language (FL) education. According to it, fostering intercultural competence (Byram and Gribkova 2002; Deardorff 2009) is often considered one of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Action Research, Models
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Lorenzo, Francisco – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2013
This study addresses academic literacy in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) secondary education. More precisely, this paper focuses on attempts to meet modern standards for language competences set in areas like Europe, where the notion involves multilingual academic competence. The study centres on new proposals for language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
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You, Xiaoye – World Englishes, 2008
Scholars tend to explain or predict China English's rhetorical strategies on the basis of Chinese discourse and cultural preferences. This inference model, I argue, falls short in studying the Chinese variety of English because, first, it essentializes both China English and Chinese, treating their discursive strategies as two easily…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries