Communication and Information Technology in (Intercultural) Language Teaching

377 Pages·2013·5.813 MB·

by  Mariusz Marczak

Communication and Information Technology
in (Intercultural) Language Teaching

Communication and Information Technology
in (Intercultural) Language Teaching
By
Mariusz Marczak
Communication and Information Technology in (Intercultural) Language Teaching,
by Mariusz Marczak
This book first published 2013
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Copyright © 2013 by Mariusz Marczak
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ISBN (10): 1-4438-5143-4, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-5143-5
To Eliza, Melania and Mateusz

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Figures........................................................................................... viii

List of Tables .............................................................................................. ix

Acknowledgements ..................................................................................... x

Introduction ................................................................................................ xi

Chapter One ................................................................................................. 1
Views of Culture and the Place of Culture in EFL Teaching

Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 36
The Rationale of Intercultural Teaching

Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 72
Implementations of Intercultural Teaching in the EFL Classroom

Chapter Four ............................................................................................ 111
Information and Communication Technology in Computer Assisted
Language Learning

Chapter Five ............................................................................................ 136
Information and Communication Technology in Intercultural Teaching

Chapter Six .............................................................................................. 188
Research Module I: Information and Communication Technology
in the Teaching of Language and Culture – the Teachers' Perspective

Chapter Seven .......................................................................................... 232
Research Module II: Call Software Evaluation with Regard
to Components of Intercultural Competence

Appendices .............................................................................................. 313

Bibliography ............................................................................................ 334

Index ........................................................................................................ 360
LIST OF FIGURES

Chapter One:
Figure 1-1: Metaphor of culture (adapted from Weaver 1986).
Figure 1-2: Kachru’s original circles (adapted from Kachru 1985).
Figure 1-3: Kachru’s circles revisited (adapted from Graddol 2006).

Chapter Three:
Figure 3-1: Kolb’s Learning Cycle (adapted from Kolb 1984)
Chapter Four:
Figure 4-1: Distributed learning (from Mason & Rennie 2006: xvii)
Chapter Six:
Figure 6-1: The Use of Software in EFL teaching
Figure 6-2: The Purposes of the Use of Computers in EFL teaching
(collapsed responses)
LIST OF TABLES

Chapter One:
Table 1-1: Cultural Knowings: Content, Activities, Outcomes (adapted
from Moran 2001)

Chapter Two:
Table 2-1: British Studies vs. Intercultural Teaching (adapted from Bolt
(2001).
Table 2-2: Landeskunde vs. New Cultural Studies (adapted from Delanoy
1995).
Table 2-3: Byram's model of ICC vs. Risager's model of ICC for world
citizenship.

Chapter Five:
Table 5-1: Teaching culture in CALL: a historical perspective.
Table 5-2: Evaluation criteria.

Chapter Six:
Table 6-1: The Use of Media in EFL teaching (weight totals and rate of
inclusion)
Table 6-2: The Use of Media in EFL teaching (frequency of use)
Table 6-3: The Use of Media in teaching culture (weight totals and rate of
inclusion)
Table 6-4: The Use of Media in EFL teaching (frequency of use)
Table 6-5: Aspects of Culture taught through ICT
Table 6-6: The Use of Intercultural Internet-based Techniques

Chapter Seven:
Table 7-1: Predictive evaluation of CALL software: overall results