An Intercultural Approach to English Language Teaching

An Intercultural Approach to English Language Teaching (Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education, 7)

Author: John Corbett
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Language: English
Pages: 229
ISBN-10:1 853 596 841
ISBN-13:9 7818 5359 6841

The process of turning this volume into a finished product has been a long one. I am grateful to all the inspirational colleagues and students from my time living and teaching in Italy, Britain, Russia and Brazil, and to those I met elsewhere at seminars usually organised by Nick Wadham-Smith of the British Council. A smaller number of scholars, colleagues and friends substantially influenced the final outcome: you will recognise yourselves in the pages that follow, and I am indebted to you all. I am also grateful to the Department of English Language at the University of Glasgow for sparing me for an academic session, so that I could write the first full draft of the manuscript. Christian Kay, Alan Pulverness and Mike Byram generously read versions of the work in progress and made constructive comments. Alison Phipps spurred me to get the job done. Throughout, Augusta Alves has been a constant source of ideas, support and love – to her this work is dedicated. The errors that remain are, obviously, my own responsibility.
The Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (www.scran.ac.uk) kindly gave permission under its licence to reproduce the following copyright images: a statue of the Buddha and a print of a Highland soldier accompanied by a slave (National Museums of Scotland). The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and Duane Hanson’s Tourists are reproduced with the kind permission of the National Gallery of Scotland and the Design and Artists Copyright Society.

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