AAUSC 2005: Internet-mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education

Learn languages directly from the people who live in those cultures! AAUSC 2005: INTERNET-MEDIATED INTERCULTURAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION lets you correspond over the Internet to French, German, Spanish, and Russian people just like you and learn the language at the same time. And because it's got tons of study tools built right in, this is the language textbook that helps you out on the test as well.

Fifteen academics from the U.S. and Europe contribute nine chapters exploring the use of technology to facilitate the intercultural aspects of foreign language (FL) learning and teaching, through lived experiences of communicative interaction with persons from other cultures. With coverage on the pedagogy of Internet-mediated intercultural foreign language education (ICFLE), research on ICFLE, and new developments in ICFLE, the text includes both chapters focusing on the development of intercultural competence and chapters emphasizing linguistic competence in telecollaboration. No subject index. For language educators and program administrators. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Julie A. Belz earned her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. She is currently an Assistant Professor of German and Applied Linguistics and a Project Director at the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER) at Penn State University. She specializes in additional language learning and development, computer-mediated intercultural communication, interlanguage pragmatics, learner corpus analysis, discourse analysis, learner identity, language play, multilingual discourse, and literary accounts of language learning. Julie conducts networked courses between the United States and Germany and oversees the establishment of Telekorp, a bilingual corpus of computer-mediated learner language. Her research has been supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Education.

Steven L. Thorne received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently the Associate Director of the Center for Language Acquisition, Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (a National Foreign Language Resource Center), and Assistant Professor in Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. His research addresses activity theory, additional language learning, and computer-mediated communication.