Developing critical cultural awareness in modern languages : a comparative study of higher education in North America and the United Kingdom / Elinor Parks.

Problematising the separation between language and content in UK and US modern language degrees -- Language graduates with 'deep translingual and transcultural competence' -- Fostering criticality and Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) in higher education -- Exploring faculty and students' views on the ML curriculum and students' development of critical cultural awareness and criticality -- Observed differences and similarities between British and American universities -- Fostering criticality development -- The development of intercultural competence and critical cultural awareness -- Defining and contextualising two emerging new competencies : communicative criticality and savoir se reconnaître -- Towards a new understanding of language degrees and critical cultural awareness : implications for theory, research and practice.

"Drawing on a comparative empirical study conducted at UK and US universities, this text explores the relationship between language and culture whilst considering its implications for the teaching of Modern Foreign Languages in higher education. Illustrating the need for a curriculum which fosters the development of intercultural competence and criticality, Parks reconceptualizes established models of Criticality (Barnett) and Intercultural Communicative Competence (Byram). Scholars interested in Intercultural Communication, Language Education and Applied Linguistics will be able to discuss the ways in which Modern Language programmes in higher education can be improved"-- Provided by publisher.

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