Context and Culture in Language Teaching"This book takes cultural knowledge in language learning not only as a necessary aspect of communicative competence, but as an educational objective in its own right. If the aim of foreign language education is to foster cross-cultural awareness and self-realization, language pedagogy needs to come to grips with a range of fundamental issues: what do we mean by cultural context? Can discourse practices be taught like rules of grammar? What role does literature play in the development of second language literacy? How can learners acquire both an insider's and an outsider's understanding of the foreign culture as expressed through its language? By exploring these and other issues, the book can help language teachers reflect on their profession and place it within its larger societal and educational context. In turn, they can help learners become not only skilful users of the language, but also active architects of a new cross-cultural world order.". |
Contents
Context and Culture in Language Teaching | 2 |
The importance of context in language education | 9 |
Educational challenges | 15 |
Contexts of speech and social interaction | 34 |
Teaching the spoken language | 70 |
Stories and discourses | 105 |
Teaching the literary text | 130 |
Common terms and phrases
activity addressee American asked authentic behavior challenge Chapter child choice Coca-Cola code-switching Coke communicative language teaching context conversation cross-cultural dialogue discourse discussion Edith Cresson English example experience explore express fact father feel forms French genre German German language give given grammatical Gregor Samsa guage Hilde Domin homework ibid individual interac interlocutors interpretation Japanese knowledge Kramsch language class language classroom language education language learners language teaching learning lesson linguistic listen literary texts meaning Mother's Day narrative narrator native speakers negotiation negotiation of meaning norms of interaction one's participants pedagogy perspective phrase poem political potential question reader reader's theater reflection response role sauber sentence shape situation social society sociolinguistic speak speech acts speech community story structures talk task teachers and learners textbook tion topic traditional understanding utterances vocabulary voice words write written