دانلود کتاب Developing Intercultural Language Materials

Educators are increasingly concerned with preparing their students for life
in today’s globalised world, aware that language learning alone is not suf‑
ficient for intercultural understanding. This book offers pathways to creat‑
ing learning materials which nurture intercultural competence; openness to
other cultures underpinned by insight into one’s own. Like all the books
in this series, it moves from research to practice. It unpicks the intricate
concepts of culture and the intercultural and uses them as the basis for
its ‘framework for developing intercultural learning materials’, along with
the theory of Complex Dynamic Systems  –  which accounts for that un‑
predictable transformation that we know as ‘learning’. This framework is
implemented in the second part of the book to devise and offer a diverse
range of intercultural learning activities. Along with activities for teachers to
familiarise themselves with the concept, and ideas for developing their own
materials, comes the centrepiece, a broad set of intercultural activities for
classroom use. The logical next step, how to integrate intercultural objec‑
tives into the curriculum, is explored in Part III, and the book concludes
with directions for researching interculturality in the classroom.