Cultural Awareness and Language Awareness Based on Dialogic Interaction with Texts in Foreign Language Learning / 
edited by Anne-Brit Fenner. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Strasbourg :  Council of Europe Publishing ;  European Centre for Modern Languages,  2001. 
 - 130 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> "This collection of articles was initiated during Workshop no. 5/98 "The specification of objectives for learner autonomy and cultural awareness within syllabus development at secondary level", organised as a result of co-operation between the European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) in Graz and the Ministry of Education of Malta" (p. 5.)  French ed. published under title: Sensibilisation aux cultures et aux langues dans l'apprentissage des langues vivantes sur la base de l'interaction dialogique avec des textes. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references following each article. 
<br/><br/>Introduction /  Anne-Brit Fenner [1.] Dialogic interaction with literary texts in the lower secondary classroom /   Anne-Brit Fenner [2.] Dialogic interaction with dramatic texts in foreign language teaching with emphasis on raising cultural awareness and language awareness /  Marina Katnić-Bakaršić<br/> [3.] Raising language awareness and language awareness by using literary texts in the process of foreign language learning in Slovakia /   Mária Kostelníková [4.] Cultural awareness and language awareness through dialogic social interaction using the internet and other media /   Hermine Penz The contributors 
<br/><br/> “This study is published within the framework of the first medium-term programme of activities of the ECML (2000-2003). Its purpose is not to give recipes. It is an attempt to investigate, theoretically as well as practically, certain important concepts in foreign language learning: dialogue, communication, intercultural awareness, language awareness, and the roles of teacher and learner. The articles present and discuss approaches to literature and other authentic texts in the classroom based on theoretical explorations of the relationship between reader and text and reading and writing processes as dynamic dialogues with the foreign culture. One of the articles investigates examples of intercultural exchanges using digital media where learners produce their own texts in order to enhance their language and cultural awareness. The main focus of all the articles in this publication is interaction: between cultures, between learners, between reader and text, and between teacher and learners. The study is also an attempt to widen the scope of the ongoing discussion about language and culture awareness by including aspects of linguistic, literary, philosophical, and didactical theories from the authors’ own cultures as well as from other traditions which have influenced their approaches to foreign language teaching and learning.” (Book Cover)<br/><br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789287147134 (pbk) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Languages, Modern--Study and teaching.<br/>Language and culture.<br/>Language and education.<br/>Multicultural education.<br/>Intercultural communication.<br/>Literature--Study and teaching.