Adopting a Cultural Portfolio Project in Teaching German as a Foreign Language: Language Teacher Cognition as a Dynamic System

Modern Language Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 546-564

  Feryok, Anne ^a   Oranje, Jo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Dynamic systems; Intercultural communicative language teaching; Intercultural language teaching; Language teacher cognition; New Zealand language education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943427234     PISSN: 00267902     EISSN: 15404781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/modl.12243     Document Type: Article

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