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Intercultural Learning in Modern Language Education: Expanding Meaning-Making Potentials
By Erin Kearney
Published by Multilingual Matters

Many educators aim to engage students in deeply meaningful learning in the language classroom, but they often face challenges in connecting students with the cultures of the languages they are learning. This book aims to demonstrate that substantial intercultural learning can and does occur in the modern language classroom, and explores the features of the classroom that support meaningful culture-in-language-learning. The author argues that transformative modern language education is intimately tied to a view of language learning as an engagement in meaning-making activity, or semiotic practice. The empirical evidence presented is analyzed and then linked to both the theorizing of culture-in-language-teaching and to practical concerns of teaching.

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