Beyond binary thinking: exploring language and culture in world languages education

Author:Gurney, Laura; Demuro, Eugenia

Article Title:Beyond binary thinking: exploring language and culture in world languages education

Abstract:
In this paper, we draw on data from world languages teachers (English, Spanish and French, in particular) to explore and unpack binaries encountered in their practice in relation to both culture and language. Specifically, we explore the fluid and the fixed, and the essential and the hybrid, within the classroom and world beyond. We theorise language and culture through the frame of the assemblage, drawing on Deleuze and Guattari, to problematise the binaries which world languages educators engage as part of their practice. En este art & iacute;culo nos basamos en datos de profesores de idiomas globales (ingl & eacute;s, espa & ntilde;ol y franc & eacute;s, espec & iacute;ficamente) para explorar y desglosar las dicotom & iacute;as encontradas en su pr & aacute;ctica en relaci & oacute;n tanto a la cultura como al lenguaje. En particular, exploramos las nociones de 'lo fluido y lo fijo', y 'lo esencial y lo h & iacute;brido', en las din & aacute;micas de sal & oacute;n de clase y el mundo m & aacute;s all & aacute;. Teorizamos el lenguaje y la cultura a trav & eacute;s del concepto de assemblage (ensamblaje), bas & aacute;ndonos en la obra de Deleuze y Guattari, para problematizar dichas dicotom & iacute;as en las que los educadores de lenguas participan habitualmente mediante su pr & aacute;ctica.

Keywords:  Culture; language; assemblage; language education; world languages

DOI: 10.1080/14708477.2024.2341767

Source:LANGUAGE AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

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