Using Modern Art to Teach Language and Culture to ESL Students Culture Students will learn about some famous Western artists and theirworks As students learn about the ideas behind the art they learnsomething about Western thought and culture This unit can also be used in an intercultural approach to languagelearning
Towards an Understanding of Culture in L2 FL Education The title of Valdes' (1990) paper, 'The inevitability of teaching and learning culture in a foreign language course,' may now reflect an axiom in second-and foreign-language (L2 and FL) pedagogy, but it remains unclear to many L2 and FL educators just how this has come to be the case and what impact this has on their classroom practice
Kodotchigova - Role Play in Teaching Culture: Six Quick Steps for . . . Identity, Culture, and Language Teaching Iowa City, IA: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Abstract As language and culture are interrelated, language cannot be taught without culture, but there are many ways of co-teaching language and culture One of them is role play
The Place of Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Reflection Language itself is already culture, and therefore it is something of a moot point to talk about the inclusion or exclusion of culture in a foreign language curriculum We might perhaps want to re-envisage the situation as a contrast between an active and deliberate immersion in culture, and a non-deliberate exposure to it
Communicating Cross-Culturally: What Teachers Should Know Indeed, culture goes far beyond the climate, food, and clothing of a student's native country Culture, undoubtedly, is complex It is multi-layered and multifaceted Indeed, some have likened it to an iceberg of which only the top is visible while a massive part remains unobservable below the surface of the water
Guidelines to Evaluate Cultural Content in Textbooks Culture: Definition Culture may have different meanings for different professionals or teachers According to Kramsch (1998), culture is 'a membership in a discourse community that shares a common social space and history, and a common system of standards for perceiving, believing, evaluating, and action' (p 127)
Using Critical Incidents to Teach Cross-cultural Sensitivity This lesson as well as the stories produced by students as their homework can serve as a wonderful starting point in the discussion of such important cross-cultural notions as culture shock, acculturation, differences and similarities between students' cultures and the culture of the second language Bibliography Cushner, K Brislin, R (1996)
Lvovich - Becoming a Cultural Insider: How Holidays Can Help ESL . . . Despite his strong motivation to learn the language and the culture, he finds himself in a situation of emotional torment and deep depression He longs for home and for his family and often takes a defensive position about his own culture and country, sometimes demonstrating some sort of Chinese "cultural supremacy "
A Comparison of L1 and L2 Reading: Cultural Differences and Schema It can include knowledge of different text types and genres, and also includes the understanding that different types of texts use text organization, language structures, vocabulary, grammar, level of formality register differently Schooling and culture play the largest role in providing one with a knowledge base of formal schemata