Interculturality in Language Teacher Education: Theoretical and Practical Considerations

CONTENT

Foreword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Chapter 1

Re-sourcing Second/Foreign Language Teacher Education: The Critical Intercultural Option

José Aldemar Álvarez Valencia & Alexánder Ramírez Espinosa. . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Chapter 2

Practical and Theoretical Articulations Between Multimodal Pedagogies and an Intercultural Orientation to Second/Foreign Language Education

José Aldemar Álvarez Valencia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

Chapter 3

Enacting Critical Interculturality in an Initial Teacher Education Programme

Carlo Granados-Beltrán. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Chapter 4

Critical Interculturality: A Key Element in the Construction of Social Subjects in Pre-Service Foreign Language Teachers’ Education

Bertha Ramos Holguín. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Chapter 5

Gay Slang and the Need for Intracultural Negotiation in Homosexual Men in Cali, Colombia

Alexánder Ramírez Espinosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Chapter 6

Rethinking the EFL Textbook from a Critical Interculturality Stance

Astrid Núñez-Pardo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Chapter 7

Intercultural Communicative Competence Mediated by a Virtual Space: The Case of Livemocha

Alejandro Fernández Benavides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167

The Authors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195