Linguistic and Cultural Education for Bildung and Citizenship

• Published in: The Modern language journal (Boulder, Colo.) Vol. 94; no. 2; pp. 317 - 321
• Main Author: BYRAM, MICHAEL
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01.06.2010; Wiley Subscription Services; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Citizenship education; Cultural Instruction; Foreign language learning; Language; Linguistics; Literary criticism; Migrants; Multicultural education; Nonnative languages; Political Factors; Pragmatics; Second Language Instruction; Second language learning; Social Factors; Teaching methods; THE COMMENTARIES; World language instruction

At the heart of theory and practice in foreign language teaching, as of education in general, is the need to clarify purposes. Given the number of books and articles on methods and techniques for the classroom, it might appear that it is methodology that is central. The dominant contemporary assumpt...