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Méndez García, María del Carmen – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2017
The Council of Europe's "Autobiography of Intercultural Encounter" (AIE) is a tool to develop intercultural competence (IC) in education by encouraging users to reflect upon and learn from momentous intercultural encounters they have experienced face to face. Its parallel resource, the "Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Student Attitudes, Cultural Awareness, Autobiographies
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Lindner, Rachel; Méndez Garcia, Maria del Carmen – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2014
Positioned against the background of the Council of Europe's interest in developing intercultural competence through education, the study presented in this paper investigates the impact on intercultural visual literacy of the Council of Europe's "Images of Others--An Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters through Visual Media"…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Visual Literacy, Preservice Teachers
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Ellis, Rod – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
The author has worked as a language teacher, teacher educator, and second language acquisition (SLA) researcher for over forty years. During this time grammar has figured largely in his thinking, in part because it has traditionally been so central to language pedagogy and in part because he became fascinated with how the human mind grapples with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Autobiographies
Hawkins, Eric – 1999
This book is an autobiographical account of the life of Eric Hawkins, a leading figure in language teaching. The author recounts his journey into language, which traces his formative experiences at school in 1920s Liverpool, taking him to pre-Civil War Spain, undergraduate life at Cambridge, language learning in the shadow of Nazi Germany, life as…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Foreign Countries, Latin American Literature, Second Language Instruction
Adamzik, Kirsten, Ed; Roos, Eva, Ed. – Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquee, 2002
This special issue, written in German and French, is a collection of articles that were presented to the Swiss Association for Applied Linguistics during 2001 and which can be categorized as "linguistic biographies" organized under the auspices and support of the Forum du bilingualisme (Forum of Bilingualism) in Bienne (Biel) and the…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries