Evaluating the self and the other: Imagined intercultural contact within a 'native-speaker' dependent foreign language context

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 842-852

  Rivers, Damian J ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

'Native speaker' dependency; Foreign language teaching; Imagined intercultural contact; Intergroup appraisals; Japanese EFL context; Prototypical exemplars

Indexed keywords

EID: 82355181020     PISSN: 01471767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2011.08.003     Document Type: Article

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