Language Learning in Intercultural Perspective addresses the ways in
which language learning is related to learning about other cultures and
to acquiring an ability to communicate across cultural frontiers. It
argues that language learners need to develop sensitivity to cultural
difference and its impact on communication, and to acquire the skills of
discovering and interpreting other cultures, other values, beliefs and
behaviours which lie beneath the surface of cross-cultural
communication. Contributors show how drama can be used to develop
cultural awareness and how learners can acquire ethnographic skills to
help them investigate and understand socio-cultural aspects of language
which play an important role in second language acquisition. The
contributors are all respected educationalists from a range of countries
and different cultural contexts.