Designing World Language Curriculum for Intercultural Communicative Competence - Paperback

by Jennifer Eddy (Author)

This book creatively redefines how teacher educators and faculty in secondary and post-secondary language education can become designers with intercultural education in mind. The author aligns theoretical frameworks with practical features for revising the modern language curriculum via themes and novel tasks that transfer language learning from classroom to community, developing communicative competence for mediation and learner autonomy along the way.
For novice and experienced instructors alike, this book empowers them to:
- design curriculum from transferable concepts that are worthy of understanding and have value within the culture(s) and to the learner;
- develop assessments that ask the learner to solve problems, and create products that transfer concepts or address needs of various audiences that they will encounter in community, life, and work;
- direct language learners through a spiral, articulated program that supports academic, career and personal goals.

Author Biography

Jennifer Eddy is Associate Professor and Program Director of World Language Education at Queens College, City University of New York, USA, and directs professional development initiatives for schools and universities on curriculum and performance assessment design.