Intercultural Communicative Competence for Global Citizenship
Marina Orsini-Jones
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Description for Intercultural Communicative Competence for Global Citizenship
Hardcover. Num Pages: 128 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTC; JFFP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
This work builds on the assumption that language learning and teaching needs to be made more relevant to the 'glocalised' digital world we live in. Its authors argue that staff in Higher Education (HE) must prepare students for effective online interaction and explores the digital, linguistic and critical intercultural components of ‘global citizenship’. The book pivots around an innovative research study; linguistic politeness frameworks are revisited to analyse the written online exchanges on an Online International Learning (OIL) - or intercultural telecollaborative - project between the UK and France.Through the use of cyberpragmatics, and inspired by Meyer and Land’s ‘threshold ... Read more
This work builds on the assumption that language learning and teaching needs to be made more relevant to the 'glocalised' digital world we live in. Its authors argue that staff in Higher Education (HE) must prepare students for effective online interaction and explores the digital, linguistic and critical intercultural components of ‘global citizenship’. The book pivots around an innovative research study; linguistic politeness frameworks are revisited to analyse the written online exchanges on an Online International Learning (OIL) - or intercultural telecollaborative - project between the UK and France.Through the use of cyberpragmatics, and inspired by Meyer and Land’s ‘threshold ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
135
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137581020
SKU
V9781137581020
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99-15
About Marina Orsini-Jones
Marina Orsini-Jones is Associate Head of School (International) and Course Director for the MA in English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics at Coventry University, UK. She is a Principal Fellow and National Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has published work on various CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) topics. Fiona Lee is Lecturer in French and Academic Skills ... Read more
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