Intercultural Language Use and Language Learning
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
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Intercultural Language Use and Language Learning Edited by
Eva Alcón Soler Universitat Jaume I, Spain
and
Maria Pilar Safont Jordà Universitat Jaume I, Spain
Editors Eva Alc´on Soler Facultat de Ci`encies Humanes i Socials Universitat Jaume I Avgda. Sos Baynat, s/n 12071 Castell´o Spain [email protected]
ISBN: 978-1-4020-5636-9
Maria Pilar Safont Jord`a Facultat de Ci`encies Humanes i Socials Universitat Jaume I Avgda. Sos Baynat, s/n 12071 Castell´o Spain [email protected]
e-ISBN: 978-1-4020-5639-0
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Contents
Acknowledgements
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Introduction Eva Alcón Soler and Maria Pilar Safont Jordà
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1. What Is an ‘Intercultural Speaker’? Juliane House
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2. Linguistic Unity and Cultural Diversity in Europe: Implications for Research on English Language and Learning Eva Alcón Soler
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3. Rethinking the Role of Communicative Competence in Language Teaching Marianne Celce-Murcia
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4. Dealing with Intercultural Communicative Competence in the Foreign Language Classroom Maria José Coperías Aguilar
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5. A Role for English as Lingua Franca in the Foreign Language Classroom? Anne Ife
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6. Writing-to-learn in Instructed Language Learning Contexts Rosa M. Manchón and Julio Roca de Larios
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7. The Acquisition of Pragmatic Competence and Multilingualism in Foreign Language Contexts Jasone Cenoz
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8. Interindividual Variation in Self-perceived Oral Proficiency of English L2 Users Jean Marc Dewaele
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9. Pragmatic Production of Third Language Learners: A Focus on Request External Modification Items Maria Pilar Safont Jordà 10. North Korean Schools in Japan: An Observation of Quasi-Native Heritage Language Use in Teaching English as a Third Language Robert J. Fouser
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11. Examining Mitigation in Requests: A Focus on Transcripts in ELT Coursebooks Patricia Salazar Campillo
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12. The Presentation and Practice of the Communicative Act of Requesting in Textbooks: Focusing on Modifiers Esther Usó-Juan
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13. Analysing Request Modification Devices in Films: Implications for Pragmatic Learning in Instructed Foreign Language Contexts Alicia Martínez-Flor Index
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Acknowledgements
First and foremost, we would like to thank all contributors in the volume for accepting to take part in this project. We are also very grateful to the reviewers of preliminary versions of some chapters for their comments and thoughtful suggestions. Special thanks to Elina Vilar, and also particularly to Otilia Martí, for their help regarding
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