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In the field of foreign-language teaching and learning, action-orientation is a didactic key principle. However, at present, empirical findings on how action-orientation can be pursued as a goal or put into practice as a teaching method in schools and at universities are scarce. Likewise, only little research has been conducted on the potentials and challenges of action-orientation from an academic perspective and from the perspective of teachers and learners so far. This volume provides an empirical contribution to the academic discourse on action-oriented approaches to foreign-language teaching and learning. While the volume's introduction gives an overview of the theoretical basis and empirical findings on action-orientation to date, the different contributions present individual studies in three areas: action-orientation in the teaching of foreign-language literature, action-oriented learning in global simulations and in school laboratories, and action-orientation in drama-/theatre-based foreign-language education.

Language --- foreign-language teaching --- foreign-language learning --- didactic principle

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In the field of foreign-language teaching and learning, action-orientation is a didactic key principle. However, at present, empirical findings on how action-orientation can be pursued as a goal or put into practice as a teaching method in schools and at universities are scarce. Likewise, only little research has been conducted on the potentials and challenges of action-orientation from an academic perspective and from the perspective of teachers and learners so far. This volume provides an empirical contribution to the academic discourse on action-oriented approaches to foreign-language teaching and learning. While the volume's introduction gives an overview of the theoretical basis and empirical findings on action-orientation to date, the different contributions present individual studies in three areas: action-orientation in the teaching of foreign-language literature, action-oriented learning in global simulations and in school laboratories, and action-orientation in drama-/theatre-based foreign-language education.

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The idea of interculturality being an essential part of a language learner's toolkit is widely accepted. Less certain is exactly what interculturality is and how to determine who has it, who does not have it and, importantly, how to get it: this book is concerned with these questions. The work presented here explores the concept of intercultural communicative competence as an aim of foreign language learning. It examines in particular the role of student mobility and how short stays abroad affect higher education students' perceptions of their development of this complex competence. It explores the coinage of the term intercultural communicative competence and the current debate regarding its definition, usage and usefulness. The work then moves on to describing an empirical study in which students who are studying English at a German university participate in an eight-week short stay abroad to the English-speaking world and are asked about their perceived development of intercultural communicative competence and the ways in which their expectations for the stay abroad are met. Developing intercultural communicative competence is an institutional aim of the stay abroad, and therefore the ways the participants make sense of this competence are of interest. Through case study research and quantitative questionnaires data are gathered, analysed and described. The study shows that even a short stay abroad helps develop intercultural communicative competence albeit in individually different ways.

interculturality --- intercultural communicative competence --- foreign language education --- stay abroad --- teacher education --- foreign language learning --- student mobility --- Sprachdidaktik --- Erwachsenenbildung

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Language and languages --- Study and teaching --- Study and teaching. --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- linguistics --- applied linguistics --- languages for specific purposes --- foreign language teaching --- foreign language learning

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Portraits of the L2 User treats second language users in their own right rather than as failed native speakers. It describes a range of psychological and linguistic approaches to diverse topics about L2 users. It thus provides an innovative overview of current second language acquisition theories, results and methods, seen from a common perspective.

Second language acquisition --- Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- L2 user. --- SLA. --- Second Language Acquisition. --- foreign language learning. --- psycholinguistics. --- second language learning. --- second language user.