Crossing Cultures in the Language Classroom

by Andrea DeCapua and Ann C. Wintergerst

Book Overview

A MICHIGAN TEACHER TRAINING title Teachers are often in the forefront of today's cross-cultural contact, whether in the language classroom or in the K-12 or university/college classroom, but they are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472089366
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.0" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

A useful concept book

I am a teacher educator who has used this book four times in an MA TESOL program course on Cross-Cultural Communication in the United States. I am now teaching in Korea, and I decided to use this book in a Cross-Cultural Communication course for MA English Education program students. I found the book very useful in both settings. I especially found the very clearly written English at a level for international students. Most students have said they could easily comprehend the concepts. American students also appreciated the clarity of the discussion. But, the most valuable feature of this book is the many very creative and thoughtful activities in the book. I have 40 years of teaching and teacher education experience, and I give these activities a very high score. They have been thoughtfully processed, and I imagine most of the activities have been tested through the authors' classroom experience. I highly recommend this book. It will open the eyes of the readers to see culture and cross-cultural communication in clear and highly significant ways.