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Thieme, Anne-Mieke M. M.; Hanekamp, Kyra; Andringa, Sible; Verhagen, Josje; Kuiken, Folkert – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
This systematic review investigates the effects of foreign language programmes in early childhood education and care (ECEC), which are increasingly popular. Foreign language ECEC centres familiarise very young children with a foreign language, and in general also expose them to the majority language. This review synthesises research on the effects…
Descriptors: Second Language Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Early Childhood Education
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Sánchez-Naranjo, Jeannette – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
Recent scholarship in professional development (PD) has advocated for solid conceptual frameworks and understanding of the complex process involved in how language educators may continue to develop and fulfil the current challenging teaching demands. However, specific relationships underlying departmental cultures and how language educators relate…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Change, Outcomes of Education, Second Language Learning
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Husemann, Harald – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1993
This paper shows how the opportunity to encounter the other culture "in my backyard" (IMBY) can be used in landeskunde. This approach moves away from landeskunde as piecemeal factual background information toward developing own-culture and foreign/target culture awareness in mixed groups of native language students. (Contains 15…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Content, Course Descriptions, Cultural Awareness
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Woods, Edward G. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1993
Proposes an approach to teaching British Studies in an English Language program for foreign students at the University of Lancaster in England. Teachers use ethnographic methods to get students to become "outsiders" in their own culture as a means of teaching them how to assimilate the target culture. Course material is appended.…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Education