Overview
- Helps language teachers integrate intercultural awareness into foreign language teaching
- Bridges the gap between theory and practice in language and intercultural education
- Provides a learning model for educators interested in a holistic, developmental approach to language and culture learning
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Background: Deep Learning, Language and Culture
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Theory: The Developmental Model of Linguaculture Learning
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Practice: A User’s Guide to the DMLL
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About this book
This book helps resolve this dilemma. Informed by brain and mind sciences, its core message is that language and culture learning can both be seen as a single, interrelated process—the embodiment of dynamic systems of meaning into the intuitive mind. This deep learning process is detailed in the form of the Developmental Model of Linguaculture Learning (DMLL). Grounded in dynamic skill theory, the DMLL describes four developmental levels of language and culture learning, which represents a subtle, yet important shift in language and culture pedagogy. Rather than asking how to add culture into language education, we should be seeking ways to make language and culture learning deeper—more integrated, embodied, experiential and transformational. This book provides a theoretical approach, including practical examples, for doing so.
Reviews
“What is new and thought-provoking in this book is its neurocognitive perspective and its observation that ‘linguaculture’ resides at a deep, intuitive level. Importantly, Joseph Shaules recognizes that both language and culture are comprised of complex dynamic patterns. For this reason, teaching linguaculture is not adding culture teaching to language teaching, but rather integrating them by understanding that the learning of such patterns calls for adaptive, embodied processes.” (Diane Larsen-Freeman, Professor Emerita, University of Michigan)
“Not since Edward Hall’s reflections on culture, and Marshall McLuhan’s ideas on communication, has an author so successfully explained the invisible links of language and culture that bind and define us. With his Developmental Model of Linguacultural Learning, Shaules provides a new lens with which to understand language and culture teaching and learning. To link theory to practice, Shaules explains modern psychological and neuroscientific theories, but rather than being overwhelmed by abstraction, the reader is captivated. Shaules’s makes tough concepts seem like a casual stroll through a botanical garden of pedagogy. Language, Culture, and the Embodied Mind is a must read for anyone who wants a clean, clear and insightful approach to language and culture learning.” (Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, Ph.D., Professor at Harvard University Extension School, and Associate Editor of Nature Partner Journal Science of Learning)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Language, Culture, and the Embodied Mind
Book Subtitle: A Developmental Model of Linguaculture Learning
Authors: Joseph Shaules
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0587-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-0586-7Published: 11 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-0589-8Published: 17 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-0587-4Published: 04 December 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 228
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Language Education, Educational Psychology, Intercultural Communication, Cognitive Linguistics