Culture in Second Language Teaching and Learning

This book identifies the many facets of culture that influence second language learners and teachers.

Eli Hinkel (Edited by)

9780521644907, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 13 March 1999

266 pages
22.9 x 15.3 x 1.6 cm, 0.365 kg

This book identifies the many facets of culture that influence second language learners and teachers. The paperback edition identifies the many facets of culture that influence second language learners and teachers. It addresses the impact of culture on learning to interact, speak, construct meaning, and write in a second language, while staying within the sociocultural paradigms specific to a particular language and its speakers. By providing a comprehensive introduction to research from other disciplines on the interaction between language and culture, this volume offers an important contribution to the field of second language acquisition.

Subject Areas: ELT: English for specific purposes [ES], Applied linguistics for ELT [EBAL]