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Applied Linguist, Ethnographer, International(ist) Citizen - Perspectives on the Language Learner

Byram, M.

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In this article, I consider three ways of envisioning the language learner, and the disciplines or theories on which they are based. The language learner as ‘applied linguist’ suggests that learners and their teachers draw on linguistic analyses of the language they are learning/teaching. To see the language learner as ‘ethnographer’ means to include the skills, knowledge and attitudes of ethnography in what is taught/learnt. The language learner as international/intercultural citizen needs to take into account insights from both citizenship education and internationalism, a counterforce to nationalism and chauvinism, which language teaching is well-placed to support. In pursuing these three possible visions of the language learner the crucial criterion is that language learning should have educational value and respond to contemporary societal conditions.

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Byram, M. (2020). Applied Linguist, Ethnographer, International(ist) Citizen - Perspectives on the Language Learner. Status quaestionis (Roma), 19, 95-108. https://doi.org/10.13133/2239-1983/17141

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 1, 2020
Publication Date 2020
Deposit Date Dec 4, 2020
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Status Quaestionis
Publisher Sapienza Università di Roma
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 19
Pages 95-108
DOI https://doi.org/10.13133/2239-1983/17141

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