Cultural Globalization And Language Education

Cultural Globalization and Language Education explores the impact of cultural globalization on language education, examining in detail how Western notions of cultural assimilation, cultural pluralism, and cultural hybridity inform the cultural component of foreign language education. Drawing insights from international and interdisciplinary sources, Kumaravadivelu argues that they have a limited, and limiting, relevance to language education in the era of cultural globalization.

B. Kumaravadivelu is professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL at San José State University. His previous book, Beyond Methods: Macrostrategies for Language Teaching, was published by Yale University Press in 2002.