Globalization and Language TeachingDavid Block, Deborah Cameron 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. |
Contents
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Foreign language learning as global communicative practice | 83 |
CATHERINE WALLACE | 101 |
a problem in the frame for SLA | 117 |
Globalization methods and practice in periphery classrooms | 134 |
The global coursebook in English Language Teaching | 151 |
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