1st Edition
Addressing Difficult Situations in Foreign-Language Learning Confusion, Impoliteness, and Hostility
By Gerrard Mugford
Copyright 2019
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines a neglected area of foreign-language teaching and learning: difficult and aggressive situations. The author presents the real-life experiences of language users and analyses how these individuals have dealt with confusion, impoliteness and hostility in target-language contexts in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom and within their home country. By constructing... Read more
Introduction 1. Choice: Importance of face and stance 2. Facing up to difficult situations: confronting confusion 3. Impoliteness: positionality and adopting a stance 4. Hostile and aggressive situations: formulating a response 5. Pedagogy: raising awareness and stance-taking Conclusions Appendix 1: Questionnaire: Negative Incidents Appendix 2. Questionnaire: Impolite / Rude Incidents Appendix 3. Questionnaire: Hostile Incidents References
Biography
Gerrard Mugford is a Senior Lecturer in the Modern Languages Department at the Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico.
