Professor Claire Kramsch, Professor of German at the University of California at UC Berkeley and visiting Professor for the PhD program in Applied Linguistics at Hellenic American University, will give a public lecture on Teaching Foreign Languages in a Global Age.
The lecture is being held by the Linguistics Department of Hellenic American College in cooperation with Hellenic American University (Manchester, NH, USA) and will take place on June 17th, 2015, at 7:00 pm in the 2nd floor Auditorium, at 22 Massalias street in Athens.
As she notes in her abstract to the talk, Professor Kramsch will explore the question of how foreign language teachers can reconcile the importance of helping students learn the skills to use the language not only in "predictable cultural contexts" of language use—French in France, for example—but also in the continuously changing and ever more unpredictable global contexts of foreign language use. The challenge for teachers, which Dr. Kramsch will explore in her talk, is how teachers can take this global context into account "without losing the historical and cultural awareness that comes from studying one national language, literature and culture."
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Admission is free of charge.
