Language Teachers, Politics and Cultures

Download or read book Language Teachers, Politics and Cultures written by Michael Byram and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1999 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign language teaching is social interaction, subject to the influences and forces of the societies in which it takes place. This text argues that geo-political changes have an effect on language teachers in their beliefs about their work and in the everyday methods they use in their classrooms. Based on empirical research in Denmark and England, the book explores the effects of major contemporary changes as they are perceived and understood by language teachers.