Globalization and Language Teaching,9780415242752

Globalization and Language Teaching

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ISBN13: 9780415242752
ISBN10: 0415242754
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-12-14
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

In this book, renowned linguists David Block and Deborah Cameron and a host of contributors contemplate the issues that globalization raises for second language learning and teaching.

Table of Contents

List of tables
vii
List of contributors
viii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1(10)
David Block
Deborah Cameron
PART I The global and the local
11(54)
The impact of globalization on language teaching in Japan
13(16)
Ryuko Kubota
Globalization, diaspora and language education in England
29(18)
Roxy Harris
Constant Leung
Ben Rampton
Globalization and the commodification of bilingualism in Canada
47(18)
Monica Heller
PART II Zones of contact
65(50)
Globalization and the teaching of `communication skills'
67(16)
Deborah Cameron
Foreign language learning as global communicative practice
83(18)
Claire Kramsch
Steven L. Thorne
Local literacies and global literacy
101(14)
Catherine Wallace
PART III Methods and materials
115(53)
`McCommunication': a problem in the frame for SLA
117(17)
David Block
Globalization, methods, and practice in periphery classrooms
134(17)
A. Suresh Canagarajah
The global coursebook in English Language Teaching
151(17)
John Gray
Bibliography 168(18)
Index 186

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