Context and Culture in Language Teaching and Learning

Abstract

1. Introduction: Context and Culture in Language Teaching and Learning - M. Byram and P. Grundy (University of Durham, UK) 2. From Practice to Theory and Back Again - C. Kramsch (University of California, USA) 3. Carrying a Baby In the Back: Teaching with an Awareness of the Cultural Construction of Language - R. Holme (University of Durham, UK) 4. Autobiographical Contents of Mono-cultural and Bi-cultural Students and their Significance in Foreign Language Literature Courses - C. Facke (Universitat Bremen, Germany) 5. Learning Culture by Communicating: Native - non-native Speaker Telephone Interactions - G. Holtzer (Universite de Franche-Comte, France) 6..Exporting Methodologies: The Reflective Approach in Teacher Training - A. Halbach (Universidad de Alcala, Spain) 7. 'We Would Have to Invent the Language We are Supposed to Teach': The Issue of English as Lingua Franca in Language Education in Germany - H. Decke-Cornill (Universitat Hamburg, Germany) 8. Teaching India in the EFL-classroom: A Cultural or an Intercultural Approach? - R. Wandel (Otto-von-Guericke Universitat, Germany) 9. European Communicative Integration: The Function of Foreign Language Teaching for the Development of a European Public Sphere - S. Breidbach (Universitat Bremen, Germany) 10..Context, Culture and Construction: Research Implications of Theory Formation in Foreign Language Methodology - M. Wendt (Universitat Bremen, Germany)