NEW BOOK!
Theo Harden/Arnd Witte
The Notion of Intercultural Understanding in the Context of German as
a Foreign Language
Oxford, Bern, Berlin,
Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien: Peter Lang Verlag 2000. 290 pp,
££ 29/DM 87ISBN 3-906758-63-X (German Linguistic and Cultural
Studies, Vol. 7 General Editor: Peter Lutzeier)
The present volume
contains 14 articles on the notion of Intercultural Understanding, both
inside and outside the foreign language classroom. Since this area is
highly controversial in language teaching in general and in German as
a Foreign Language in particular, the editors have tried to unfold as
comprehensive a picture as possible with regard to the diversity of the
present debate. Thus the contributions range from very personal accounts
of experiencing otherness and practical considerations concerning the
implementation of adequate measures in language curricula to psychological
and philosophical questions about the possibility or impossibility to
achieve Intercultural Understanding.
The editors:
Dr. Theo Harden is Senior Lecturer in German at the National University
of Ireland in Dublin.
Dr. Arnd Witte is Senior Lecturer in German at the National University
of Ireland in Maynooth.
List of Contents
Hans-Jüürgen
Heringer
How to Improve
Your Understanding
Gerhard Neuner
The "Key Qualifications" of Intercultural Understanding and
the Rudiments of Intercultural Foreign Language Didactics and Methodology
Arnd Witte
How to be an Alien - Learning a Foreign Language and Understanding Culture
Adelheid Hu
Intercultural Learning and its Difficult Aspects - An Analysis of the
Criticism in Relation to a Controversial Concept
Theo Harden
The Limits of Understanding
Hans-Jüürgen
Krumm
The Languages of our Neighbours - How Realistic is a Concept of Multilingualism
in a Multilingual and Multicultural Europe?
Lothar Bredella
The Significance of Intercultural Understanding in the Foreign Language
Classroom
Hannes Kniffka
Alien Reading - Newspaper Ads in Intercultural Understanding
Anne Fuchs
How to be a Pilgrim and a Cartographer at the Same Time - Some Deliberations
on Intercultural Understanding
Sabine Strüümper-Krobb
Understanding Culture and Cultural Differences through Literary Translation
Studies
Emer O'Sullivan &
Dietmar Röösler
'We're not like that!' - Using Stereotypes of the Learners' Culture in
Target Language Texts to Increase Intercultural Awareness
Elke Hentschel
Cold at Heart - Some Personal Observations on Intercultural Misunderstandings
Vridhagiri Ganeshan
Intercultural Mis(s)-understanding between Indians and Germans - Some
Observations from an Indian Perspective
Marlene Rall
Last Glances of the "Imperial Eyes" - Cooperative Principles
and Intellectual Styles in the Mexican Foreign Language Classroom
