TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arnd Witte
AU  - Theo Harden
PY  - 2015
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1663-5809
SN  - 9783035307030
TI  - Foreign Language Learning as Intercultural Experience
T2  - The Subjective Dimension
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0703-0
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1053409
N2  - Learning a foreign language in its cultural context has a significant effect on the subjective mind, ranging from the unsettling to the inspirational. The complex interplay between native and foreign languages, their cultural conceptualisations and discourses and the mind and body of the learner results in the subjective construction of individual positionings located «in between» the languages and cultures involved. These processes are not restricted to the cognitive level of learning but also involve deep-seated habits, values and beliefs. These habits, values and beliefs are to a certain extent the result of subjective experiences and feelings; however, they are also embedded in a socio-cultural network of concepts, norms, traditions and life-worlds, so that they are characterised both by the learner’s subjectivity and by the sociality and (inter-)culturality of their environment.   The essays in this volume explore the subjective dimension of intercultural language learning, ranging from theoretical considerations to empirical studies and providing stimulating insights into this important area of study.
KW  - Sociolinguistics, Foreign language, Intercultural exchange
LA  - English
ER  -