Towards a cultura franca contemporary American civil and human rights drama in the foreign language classroom / Jeannette U. Böttcher.
| Author/creator | Böttcher, Jeannette U. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Frankfut am Main ; New York : Peter Lang Edition, [2017] |
| Description | 168 pages : illustration ; 22 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Anglo-Amerikanische Studien : Literatur, Kultur und Didaktik = Anglo-American studies : literature, culture and teaching, 0177-6959 ; Band 53 |
| Contents | Part 1. Setting the stage: culture and its derivatives in modern society. We are many cultures: who is the I in we? -- Culture and identity -- Ethnicity, cultural belonging, and the idea of multiculturalism -- Culture in the educational context -- The identity factor in intercultural communicative competence -- The myth of teaching ICC -- Language, identity, and ICC -- From lingua franca to cultura franca -- Educating interculturally -- Part 2. Staging drama or the art of didactics. Drama method and the concept of a cultura franca -- Tasks and responsibilities of textbooks -- Test case: dreaming American, the civil rights movement and the modern foreign language class -- Goals in modern foreign language learning and teaching: competence orientation versus drama pedagogy -- Drafting learning outcomes and assessing the validity of learning contents -- (Re-) constructing foreignness -- The drama of the civil rights movement -- Introducing Night Blooms: preliminary considerations about the contexts, expectations, and objectives -- Night Blooms as historical and modern narrative -- Other relevant topics to talk about in connection with Night Blooms -- Wrapping up and moving on -- Part 3. The stage is set. Night Blooms: from word to movement -- Three routes that lead to one goal -- Spotlight 1: learning from history: the march on Selma -- Spotlight 2: the Southern way of life -- Spotlight 3: the Black housemaid in the South -- Curtain call. |
| Abstract | "This book is mapping the fields of modern output-oriented teaching, intercultural learning, and drama methods in the foreign language class. It explains that by including inter-cultural aspects and human and civil rights issues a more tolerant perception of 'the other' can be achieved" -- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-168). |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017028864 |
| ISBN | 9783631731321 (Print) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |