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Paul Beaufait

National Languages - Global Markets | Tomorrow's Professor Postings - 0 views

  • powerful languages of the world may express national identities, or they may be the medium for the expression of other collective identities distinct from or even in conflict with the nation
  • Absorption and incorporation may be the preferred option for the powerful; for others – the majority, we suspect – the plurality and diversity of human expression, even within the world’s most powerful languages, is what the intercultural approach, moving from language learning to languaging, can both celebrate and encourage
  • It is therefore our task in the next chapter to begin to discover a way forward, to find theory and method sufficient to the task of creating critical dispositions for languaging and being intercultural
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    Excerpt from Chapter 1, The Politics of Language (Phipps & Gonzalez, 2004) Phipps, Alison, and Gonzalez, Mike. (2004). Modern Languages: Learning and Teaching in an Intercultural Field. London, UK: Sage Publications.
Paul Beaufait

On-Line Cultural Training Resource For Study Abroad--University of the Pacific - 0 views

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    "This material offers an opportunity to explore various aspects of intercultural communication and adjustment models that are known to impact upon all study abroad experiences. This is not a stand-alone, distance-learning course. Nor should it be a substitute for a University or program-based orientation or reentry program, if your institution has them available" (Introduction, ¶1, c. 2003).
Paul Beaufait

Center for Instructional Excellence - Intercultural Learning 101 - 0 views

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    Purdue University's modular online prep. course for studying abroad
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