Intercultural Learning in Modern Language Education

Erin Kearney is Assistant Professor of Foreign and Second Language Education at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is interested in cultural dimensions of foreign and second language teaching and learning, as well as language teacher development and education, early foreign language learning and language awareness, and classroom discourse and interaction in L2 settings.

• 1. The Challenges of Addressing Culture in Modern Language Education2. The Culture Learning Target: Engagement with Meaning Potentials3. Creating and Investigating Intercultural Worlds in a Modern Language Classroom4. Understanding Signification and Interpretive Acts through Engagement with Cultural Representations5. Realizing Meaning Potentials through Narrative Writing6. Sense-Making in a Web of Meanings: Implications for Theory, Research and PracticeReferences

Erin Kearney's book is theoretically engaging and deeply insightful in the argument it foregrounds for a social semiotic approach in modern languages teaching and learning. Truly a 'must read' for graduate students and scholars interested in contemporary debates on ML education, this book could not have been more timely.