Intercultural Dialogue in Practice Managing Value Judgment through Foreign Language Education

by Houghton, Stephanie Ann

• ISBN13: 9781847697240
• ISBN10: 1847697240
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-13
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

This book explores the wide-ranging terminology relevant to intercultural dialogue. It reports on a research project that explored the management of value judgment in foreign language education to overcome prejudice, which is a key dynamic in intercultural dialogue that brings many other factors into play.

Author Biography

Stephanie Houghton is an Associate Professor in Intercultural Communication at Saga University in Japan, where she is the Chief of the Student Exchange section of the Center for the Promotion of International Exchange. Her research activities focus on intergroup relations, self and identity in foreign language education and the development of intercultural communicative competence.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

PART 1 EXPLORING THE ROOTS OF VALUE JUDGMENT

Chapter 1 Information Processing, Socialisation and the Self

Chapter 2 Ethnocentrism and Ethnorelativism

Chapter 3 Theoretical and Political Perspectives Upon Value Judgment

PART 2 MANAGING VALUE JUDGMENT IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION

Chapter 4 Overview of the Study

Chapter 5 The Intercultural Dialogue Model

Chapter 6 Critically Analysing Self and Other

Chapter 7 Critically Evaluating Self and Other

Chapter 8 Shifting the Interface: From Self and Other to Self and Society

Conclusion