Dilemmas and Paradoxes of English Language-and-Culture Teaching: Foreign or International?

• Authors: Anna Konieczna

Title variants

EN

Dilemmas and Paradoxes of English Language-and-Culture Teaching: Foreign or International?

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

The article presents the many dilemmas concerning the status of English language-and-culture (as a conjoint phenomenon) and the approach to teach it in a non-native environment. It especially focuses on the alternatives of teaching English as a foreign or as an international language, pointing to the problems relating to the choice of any of these particular frameworks.

Keywords

DE

English Language-and-Culture Teaching; Foreign; International

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Glottodidactica
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 33
• Pages: 95-105

Dates

published

2018-11-01

Contributors

author

Anna Konieczna

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/gl.2007.33.08