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Language Learners as Ethnographers

By: Celia Roberts, Michael Byram, Shirley Jordan, Brian Street

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Hardcover | 1 December 2000

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Combining an overview of language and cultural practices with a description of ethnographic approaches and materials designed for language learners, this text encourages language students to take part in ethnographic studies whilst studying abroad.

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Non-Fiction Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Communication Studies Language & Linguistics Linguistics Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Language Learning & Teaching Theory & Methods Physical Anthropology

Education Teaching of a Specific Subject

Language Learning and Ethnography: Theory and Practice
New Goals	p. 3
Language learners	p. 3
New times	p. 5
Language learning as social practice	p. 8
Language learning and ethnography	p. 10
The Ealing ethnography research project	p. 12
Purposes and audiences for this book	p. 13
Introducing Cultural Learning into the Language Curriculum	p. 18
Cultural work	p. 18
Cultural learning and communicative language teaching	p. 24
Cultural studies and language learning	p. 26
Ethnography and the intercultural speaker	p. 29
The intercultural speaker and cross-cultural communication	p. 31
The integration of language and cultural studies in higher education	p. 32
Language learning for mobility	p. 33
Language lecturers as ethnographers	p. 35
Intercultural competence and ethnographic fieldwork	p. 36
Learning theories and outcomes	p. 38
Theoretical Issues in Language and Cultural Practices	p. 44
Why bother with theory?	p. 44
Functional and constructivist perspectives of culture and language	p. 46
A cognitive view of 'culture'	p. 50
A symbolic view of 'culture'	p. 51
A critical view of 'culture'	p. 52
Culture is a verb	p. 54
Language-and-cultural practices	p. 55
Interactional sociolinguistics	p. 56
Representations, Discourses and Practices	p. 64
Issues of ethnicity and nationality	p. 64
Linguistic relativity	p. 69
Discourse, text and practice	p. 77
Non-verbal communication and use of social space	p. 83
Travelling and the intercultural speaker	p. 85
Ethnography for Linguists	p. 88
Ethnography in anthropology	p. 88
Fieldwork	p. 91
Ethnography for linguists	p. 94
The Ealing Ethnography Project: A Case Study
Teaching Ethnography	p. 101
Ethnography as staff development	p. 101
Fieldwork at first hand	p. 103
Generating teaching materials	p. 108
Evaluation and generalisation	p. 112
Developing the Principles for an Ethnography Course	p. 116
Some fundamental principles	p. 116
Looking at everyday life culturally and ethnographically	p. 118
Developing a conceptual framework	p. 128
Developing an ethnographic method	p. 139
The Ethnography Class	p. 151
Introduction: Local level politics	p. 151
Ethnography in the classroom	p. 154
A typical session: Local level politics	p. 155
Links to ethnography projects	p. 172
Class diaries	p. 174
Assessment	p. 176
The Student Ethnography Projects	p. 185
Ethnography projects: Some examples	p. 186
The 'home ethnography'	p. 188
Some characteristics of ethnography projects	p. 191
Valuing the process	p. 197
Assessment procedures	p. 204
'The Year Abroad': An Ethnographic Experience	p. 210
Student interviews	p. 210
In the field	p. 212
Preparation and 'the real thing'	p. 214
Data collection	p. 215
The writing process	p. 219
Living the ethnographic life	p. 222
Language acquisition	p. 226
Summing up	p. 227
Conclusions and New Perspectives	p. 229
Ethnographers as intercultural speakers	p. 229
Individual development in the year abroad	p. 235
From language learning to intercultural interaction	p. 238
Language learners as ethnographers: A generalisable approach?	p. 241
Bibliography	p. 248
Index	p. 261
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