[DOWNLOAD] "Use of Ethnographic Interviews: As a Resource for Developing Intercultural Understanding (Report)" by Babel ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Use of Ethnographic Interviews: As a Resource for Developing Intercultural Understanding (Report)
- Author : Babel
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 209 KB
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Abstract This article discusses the use of ethnographic interviews as a resource for developing intercultural understanding by students of French. Language teaching has traditionally viewed languages as discrete systems disconnected from the speakers' understanding of themselves and from native speakers of the target language. This poses a problem for learning because it ignores the intimate relationship between language and identity. Using ethnographic interviews the study explores the language learners' understanding of self in relation to the self of the native speaker. The project draws on recent work in the development of intercultural language learning and shares with it an emphasis on the experience of engagement in languages and cultures from the learner's point of view. The study concerns a piece of classroom-based research conducted by a lecturer in French with a group of third year students at the University of South Australia. This group comprises both students who entered the program at the university after having completed Year 12 French at school and students who commenced the study of French at university level. (The two pathways merge at the third year level in this program). The research is based on the documentation of participating students' experiences. While it draws on exemplars emanating from the teaching of a third year class of university students, application of findings at all phases of language learning is discussed.