Foreword Preface Introduction PART I - THE THEORY/PRACTICE GAP IN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE PEDAGOGIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION Chapter 1 - Stumbling Blocks to Bridging the Theory/Practice Gap Chapter 2 - From Stumbling Blocks into Building Blocks PART II - THEORY VS. PRACTICE AND THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY Chapter 3 - Case Studies of Curricular Innovation Chapter 4 - The Good, the Bad and the Feasible PART III - BRIDGING THE GAP WITHOUT FALLING INTO THE PRECIPICE Chapter 5 - Articulating the Feasible with Sustainable Innovation Conclusion - Prospects for a Field in Transition
Adriana Raquel Diaz is Associate Lecturer at the School of Languages and Linguistics, Griffith University, Australia. Her main research activities focus on the development of intercultural competence, the variables affecting the implementation of intercultural language curricula and teaching methodologies as well as teachers' journeys in the development of intercultural language learning pedagogies.
The book is reader-friendly and thus, capable of attracting and holding readers' attention. Moreover, it is a book written for quite a wide readership, including scholars of applied linguistics and language teaching, language teachers, language curriculum designers as well as students of linguistics. In closing, I have no hesitation to suggest this book to anyone who is interested in language and culture teaching, particularly in tertiary education irrespective of their context of study and work. -- Ali Karakas, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Turkey LINGUIST List 25.4459 This book constitutes a big step forward in the field of language and culture teaching. It contains a comprehensive and insightful discussion of the gap between theory and practice and presents a very thoughtful analysis of an innovative teacher-researcher collaborative project aimed at investigating different ways of developing university students' critical languaculture awareness as part of the internationalisation process. Karen Risager, Roskilde University, Denmark Based on her own research, Adriana Diaz's Guide to Practice provides a pedagogic framework that seeks to bridge the gap between theory and practice as well as between language and culture in the language classroom. This book invites readers to rethink and reflect critically about the complex process of teaching language AND culture, which is an increasingly key issue in a more integrated approach to language and culture in language education. Darla K. Deardorff, Duke University, USA
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