Globalization and language teaching

Globalization and language teaching

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This book considers the issues globalization raises for second language learning and teaching. Block and Cameron's collection shows how, in an economy based on services and information, the linguistic skills of workers becomes increasingly important. New technologies make possible new kinds of language teaching, and language becomes an economic commodity with a value in the global marketplace. This has implications for how and why people learn languages, and for which languages they learn.Drawi…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Globalization and language teaching / edited by David Block and Deborah Cameron.

Summary

This book considers the issues globalization raises for second language learning and teaching. Block and Cameron's collection shows how, in an economy based on services and information, the linguistic skills of workers becomes increasingly important. New technologies make possible new kinds of language teaching, and language becomes an economic commodity with a value in the global marketplace. This has implications for how and why people learn languages, and for which languages they learn.Drawing together the various strands of the globalization debate, this rich and varied collection of c.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2002.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2002.

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Description based upon print version of record.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1134546386, 9781134546381, 1280178558, 9781280178559, 0203242475, 9780203242476, 1134546394, 9781134546398, 0203193679, 9780203193679, 9780203242475
  • DOI:10.4324/9780203193679
  • oclc:on1316541938
  • LC Classification:P53
  • Dewey Decimal:418/.0071

Table of Contents

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction DAVID BLOCK AND DEBORAH CAMERON; The global and the local; The impact of globalization on language teaching in Japan RYUKO KUBOTA; Globalization, diaspora and language education in England ROXY HARRIS, CONSTANT LEUNG AND BEN RAMPTON; Globalization and the commodification of bilingualism in Canada MONICA HELLER; Zones of contact; Globalization and the teaching of 'communication skills' DEBORAH CAMERON; Foreign language learning as global communicative practice CLAIRE KRAMSCH AND STEVEN L. THORNE

Local literacies and global literacy CATHERINE WALLACEMethods and materials; 'McCommunication': a problem in the frame for SLA DAVID BLOCK; Globalization, methods, and practice in periphery classrooms A. SURESH CANAGARAJAH; The global coursebook in English Language Teaching JOHN GRAY; Bibliography; Index

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Subjects

Language and languages -- Study and tea… Language teachers -- -Training of Second language acquisition

Writers

Block, David Cameron, Deborah

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