What makes a cultural group?
Does this mind map made at www.mind2map.com
answer that question?
Should Culture (UK / US / Aus etc) be integrated into
English lessons?
What do tweeters say?
No!
- English
is an international language
- Topics
should be relevant to students
- Cultural
specific topics can confuse
- Often
leads to stereotyping
- More
interesting things than UK and US culture
Yes
- Helps
with motivation
- Helps
reflects on our own culture
- Helps
to contextualise language
- Helps
to provide ‘comprehensible input’
- Popular
culture based in UK / US culture.
I am sure you, like me, can pick some truths out of both
camps. But as course books tend to have a lot of culture and we tend to use the
course book in class then we need to include culture in our teaching and these
are some ways how.
Cinema
Unique
events
Lyrics
Traditions
Useful
knowledge / language
Real people
Entertainment
These are some others that some Czech teachers came up with
Course book, comparison
cinema. computers card, cds, cartoons customs, creativity, communication
Understanding. unabridged books
Listening, literature., learning., language
Tales, text. teacher, technology, traditions travelling tastes textbook
Universal unique information usage useful knowledge
Reading, riddles, radio role-play realia, rumour and gossip, religion
Entertainment, extracts, etiquette
Understanding. unabridged books
Listening, literature., learning., language
Tales, text. teacher, technology, traditions travelling tastes textbook
Universal unique information usage useful knowledge
Reading, riddles, radio role-play realia, rumour and gossip, religion
Entertainment, extracts, etiquette
This is a link to another session I did on culture to see
more reasons why it should be integrated.
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