Cultural factors in the teaching and learning of a second language

Author: EilHinkel
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: This book is divided into three main parts: Part (Chapters 1, 2, 3) elaborates on the influence of culture on second language acquisition—differences in classroom performance and teacher expectations between students from different cultural backgrounds, the disparities in vocabulary comprehension and usage between the native language and the target language, as well as varying interpretations of conversational meaning among learners from different cultural backgrounds; Part (Chapters 4, 5, 6) discusses the impact of culture on second language