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Foreign language teaching – Integrationism vs. MGM
2018
Abstract Modern language teaching is no longer grammar based, but based on authentic real life dialogues (dialogic speech acts) which enable learners to communicate or rather to interact verbally and nonverbally competent with native speakers. The conception of language teaching curricula, especially with regard to the development of textbooks, is in need of an applicable model of communication, based on regularities or principles of language-usage. Both, Integrationism and the Mixed Game Model (MGM) opt against segregational static approaches of linguistic analysis and – at first glance – could be considered suitable approaches within the field of language teaching. Yet, I will argue that …
Estilos de aculturación y encrucijadas de la diversidad cultural
2009
La diversidad cultural y su gestión política se han convertido en el tema central de nuestro tiempo. Ello está relacionado con el hecho de que en las sociedades de la modernidad avanzada, inmersas en una radicalización e intensificación de los procesos de mundialización, se generan condiciones de pluralismo etnocultural constitutivo (con diversidad de estilos y estrategias de aculturación y nuevas modalidades de conciencia intercultural), que impugnan las pautas de gestión de la diversidad típicas de sociedades precedentes. El artículo aborda los principales estilos de aculturacion imperantes en dicho contexto, con especial referencia a la sociedad española: la pluralidad de estilos vigente…
Postcards and Supasigns : Extending Integrationist Theory Through the Creation of Interactive Digital Artworks
2007
Integrationism is a post-structuralist theory of language and communication. The theory has been applied to a groundbreaking analysis of writing as a form of communication where writing is teased apart from speech and realigned with spatial configurations in general. Although it has many practical applications, this view can be extremely difficult to comprehend when expressed as a very specific form of writing, that is, as written words on paper. A solution to this problem is offered by the creative interaction design of two digital artworks, Postcard From Tunis and Postcards From Writing. The works are interactive multimedia pieces that creatively express the integrationist theory of writi…