Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language Pedagogy

Description

Successful teaching demands continuing interaction with other professionals as well as an ongoing dialogue with new developments in one’s field. Frontline educators tend to push the boundaries of their practice and seek the transformative aspect of learning, not simply through a procedure or method, but in terms of how learning must remain within each learner’s reach and ownership, by centering on transactional processes between teacher and student as well as between school and community. In addition to this transactional interface of meaning-making processes, practitioners also enact a greater commitment to reflective practice and democratic language pedagogy where learning communities within and beyond the classroom are seamlessly blended and remain essential to the learning process. This volume seeks to fulfill that void by furnishing the reader with innovative practices grounded in foreign language pedagogy. It orbits around research on raising multicultural awareness and applying innovative interdisciplinary approaches to teaching foreign languages across all levels of the educational strata.