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Kramsch, Claire – Language Teaching, 2013
With the advent of globalization and the increasingly multilingual and multicultural nature of nations, institutions and classrooms, the fundamental nature of foreign language instruction is changing. Such traditional notions as: "native speaker", "target culture", "standard L2" are becoming problematic with the…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Academic Discourse, Literacy
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Kramsch, Claire – ADFL Bulletin, 1999
Responds to the two main issues addressed by authors of two previous articles: the notion of near-native speaker and that of linguistic purism. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Faculty, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Variation
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Kramsch, Claire – European Journal of Education, 1993
A cross-cultural training seminar involving French, German, and American language teachers is described. The program was designed to examine the influence of teachers' cultural perceptions on selection of authentic instructional materials, sources of linguistic misunderstandings, and teachers' strategies for resolving cultural conflict. (MSE)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Conflict Resolution, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Differences