Front Matter; Contents; Introduction; Culture in Language Teaching; Culture in Language: A Transnational View; Cultural and Historical Narrative in Native and Non-native Speaker Language; The Awareness of Context in Second Language Acquisition Theories; Authenticity and Textbook Dialogues; Film Dialogue as a Resource for Promoting Language Awareness; Appendix: A Technical Note; Contributors
Summary
Classical and modern foreign language studies no longer have a well-defined subject area, and language and culture can no longer be defined according to nations and national identities. New approaches are being developed with theoretical and methodological points of departure in new areas of research: for example, culture studies, anthropology, sociology, pragmatics and conversation analyses. The aim of modern language studies must therefore be redefined, and be more open for variation and diversity, both in culture and communication. The book discusses the relation between language and cultur