Abstract
Teaching English in higher education entails additional factors and considerations that exemplify the complexity of accounting for the diverse population in modern higher education institutions. In particular, the increasing flow of international students and the employment demands of functioning in multicultural contexts render helping students to develop a critical understating of intercultural relations an important aspect of English language teaching. With the increasing adoption of English as a medium of instruction and its use as a lingua franca in intercultural communication, it is important to structure English education in a way that accounts for intercultural relations both in and outside the university. In addition to the postmodern conceptualizations of interculturality that emphasize the fluidity of culture, language and identity intercultural relations are characterized by power imbalances. That is why this chapter makes a case for the necessity of considering sociopolitical realities in intercultural English language teaching in higher education. Copyright © 2021 IGI Global.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Trends and developments for the future of language education in higher education |
Editors | Catherine Hua XIANG |
Place of Publication | Hershey PA |
Publisher | IGI Global |
Pages | 1-16 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781799872283 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781799872269 |
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Publication status | Published - 2021 |