Teaching culture in a language class
- 1. Teaching Culture in a Language Course JOANNE CHEN 2015
- 2. Understanding Language Balance Language as Code Language as social practice Language and Culture
- 3. Learning to communicate in an additional language involves developing an awareness of the way in which culture interrelates with language whenever it is uses. (Liddicoat, Papademetre, Scarine, &Kohler, 2003) 我的女兒叫陳美麗; 這樣大家才會叫我 美麗的媽媽!
- 4. What is Culture? Culture has often been understood as practices or as knowledge: Knowledge about cultural artefacts or works of art; Knowledge about ways of living; Knowledge about places and institutions; Knowledge about events and symbols; The knowledge-based view of culture often takes the form of teaching information about another country, its people, its way of living, and so on.
- 5. But, Culture is not simply a body of knowledge but rather a framework in which people live their lives and communicate shared meanings with each other.
- 6. Culture is fundamentally related to language The goal of learning is to develop an intercultural identity as a result of an engagement with an additional culture.
- 8. Approaches to teaching Culture Artefacts And Institutions Facts Processes And Practice Static Approach to cultural learning and content Dynamic approach- Active engagements to learning
- 9. Intercultural framework consist three intersecting dimensions: The nature of content: artefact-practice The nature of learning: fact- process The nature of the educational effect: cultural - intercultural
- 10. Intercultural Language Learning Learners engage in developing cultural competence from the beginning of their language learning. Learners engage in understanding their own languages and cultures in relation to the additional language and culture. ILL is more than just learning the culture and compare to one’s own. Learners must make choices when engaging in meaningful communication in another language.ISBN: 978-1-4051-9810-3 208 pages April 2013, Wiley-Blackwell
- 11. Developing intercultural language learning: 1 Active Construction Learners involves purposeful engagement in interpreting in interaction with others 2 Making connections Language and culture and learning Existing and new conceptions Language and thinking First language and target language Intercultural self – intracultural self – others. 3 Interaction Learners continuously learn and build from interacting experience. 4 Reflection Aware of how we think, know and learn about language, culture, and their relationships. 5 Responsibility Learning depends on learners’ attitudes, dispositions and values. Five Principles of Intercultural Language Learning
- 12. Developing intercultural capabilities through actives involving: Noticing cultural similarities and differences Comparing what one has notice about another language and culture with one already know Reflecting on what one’s experience of linguistic and cultural diversity means for oneself Interacting on the basis of one’s learning and experiences of diversity in order to create personal meanings about one’s experiences
- 13. Goal of culture learning: The ability to learn beyond the classroom It is probably more important than any particular information that students may learn about another culture during their school year. Culture Language
- 14. Sources for Creating Cultural Texture 1. Information Sources: internet, CD, Video, literature, magazine, newspapers and all sorts of authentic materials; 2. Activity-types: Quizzes, talk/discussions, role-play, drama, crafts, hand-on practice, noticing, prediction, research, reformulation, games, singing, projects, writing, field trips; 3. Selling – Points: “Sell“ different views of the culture to our students. Activity and materials portray different aspects of the culture. For example, Facts vs. Behavior, City life vs. Country life, Attractive vs. Shocking, Historical vs. Modern. http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Cullen-Culture.html
- 15. Tips on teaching culture Group work Learn your students’ language and culture Make it interesting Suitable level of difficulty Don’t Try to cover everything Understand your own cultural baggage