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    Teachers as Mediators in the Foreign Language Classroom

    By Michelle Kohler

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    Language teachers are key figures in preparing young people for participation in an increasingly multilingual and culturally diverse world, yet little is known about how they go about this in practice. This book uses examples of classroom interaction to reveal how teachers of languages act as intercultural mediators and the implications of this for practice. To date, there has been little exploration of how teachers mediate language and culture learning from an intercultural perspective, and what underlies their mediation practices in terms of their conceptions of intercultural language teaching and learning. This book offers an account of what teachers are thinking, feeling and doing as they enact an intercultural perspective on language teaching and learning.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMultilingual Matters
    Release dateJan 12, 2015
    ISBN9781783093083
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    Teachers as Mediators in the Foreign Language Classroom
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    Michelle Kohler

    Michelle Kohler is Senior Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures, University of South Australia. Her areas of expertise include mediation, intercultural perspectives on second language teaching and learning, curriculum and assessment design, and language policy and planning. Michelle is particularly interested in praxis and has worked extensively with teachers of languages across all levels of education through participatory action research. She is the author of Teachers as mediators in the foreign language classroom and Developing intercultural language learning. Michelle is the current President of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia and a member of the Intercultural Mediation Research Network, International Association of Applied Linguistics.

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