Intercultural language use and language learning

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Springer, Dordrecht

2007

287 Pages

ISBN 978-1-4020-5636-9

Intercultural language use and language learning

Edited by

Eva Alcón Soler, Maria Pilar Safont Jordà

This volume attempts to address an issue that deserves further attention on the part of language acquisition researchers: that of intercultural learners in instructed language contexts. Given the fact that most speech communities where such learning takes place are at least bilingual, and the idea that English is studied for the purposes of communication among people from different cultures, the book focuses on English learners as intercultural speakers. In so doing, the volume brings together three main research areas: thoseof the study of English as a lingua franca, the development of communicative competence and the use and acquisition of a language beyond a second one in instructed contexts.

This book is for researchers with an interest in the field of second/foreign language acquisition and use, scholars examining learner variables in instructional contexts, and scholars adopting a sociolinguistic perspective in the study of oral discourse and languages in contact.

Publication details

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5639-0

Full citation:

Alcón Soler, E. , Safont Jordà, M. (eds) (2007). Intercultural language use and language learning, Springer, Dordrecht.

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