COD 2010 - G561

Cultural Programme: Intercultural Language Activities

1 sessions, start: 05-Jul

Course detail

Year: 2010
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Prof. John Corbett
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ARS 65.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 05 July 2010 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

John Corbett

Professor John Corbett is Head of the Department of English Language in the University of Glasgow. He is Principal Investigator of the SCOTS and CMSW projects, and he has written and edited various books and articles on Scots and corpus-based language study, including Language and Scottish Literature, The Edinburgh Companion to Scots (with Jane Stuart-Smith and J. Derrick McClure), Written in the Language of the Scottish Nation and Exploring English with Online Corpora (with Wendy Anderson). He has also written and published on intercultural language education, most notably An Intercultural Approach to English Language Teaching and the recently-published Cambridge University Press ELT Handbook, Intercultural Language Activities.
In this session, participants will be invited to consider the challenge of intercultural communication in the 21st century, in the context of global communications. We will look at activities to encourage language learners to "defamiliarise" their own culture and systematically observe the cultures of others. We will focus on topics such as the rules of everyday conversation, the layout of family homes, how online corpora can be used to explore language and culture, and how the internet can be used to establish multicultural online communities of learners and teachers.
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