JALT2014 Plenary Speaker article: Foreign language teaching and the multilingual subject

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Peter Hourdequin, JALT2014 Co-Chair

An interview with Claire Kramsch, University of California, Berkeley

Sponsored by the College and University Educators (CUE) SIG

Claire Kramsch is Professor of German and Affiliate Professor of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Applied Linguistics and directs doctoral dissertations in the German Department and in the Graduate School of Education. She has written extensively on language, discourse, and culture in foreign language education. Two of her books, Context and Culture in Language Teaching (OUP, 1993) and The Multilingual Subject (OUP, 2009) won the Mildenberger Award from the American Modern Language Association. She is the past president of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and the current president of the International Association of Applied Linguistics.

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