Publications

Publication details [#57824]

Yoshida, Tomoko, Izumi Kurokawa, Clyde H. Lewis, Remi Igarashi and Kenichi Kuradate. 2013. The Plurilingual Lounge: Creating new worldviews through social interaction. International Journal of Intercultural Relations 37 (1) : 113–126.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language acquisition | foreign language teaching | intercultural communication | language and culture | social interaction

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper describes the Plurilingual Lounge at Keio University (Japan) as a means of teaching language and culture via natural social interactions. Results offer partial support for the “Student Involvement Theory” and back Fantini's (1995) theory that intercultural communication is best to be acquired via natural social interaction.