Approaches to Teaching Culture
"researchers in the language socialization tradition believe that language and culture are not separable, but are acquired together, with each providing support for the development of the other“. (Mitchell and Myles ,2004)
Outline
Establish a goal;
Teaching syllabi;
Course design;
Teaching materials;
Methods
Evaluation
Specific purposes fit for a course
除了强调培养学生运用语言的准确性外,还要培养他们对文化差异的敏感性、宽容性和处理文化差异的灵活性.《英语专业教学大纲》
“…have a coherent set of concepts based on facts concerning the main values of the culture, its assumptions about the nature of man and his world, its great art forms, its folk art and its humor. “
“… have an understanding of the people's social institutions, their social psychology, and their ecological arrangements”. (Nostrand , 1970)
Specific objectives
1. The ability to react appropriately in a social situation
2. The ability to describe, or to ascribe to, the proper part of the population a pattern in the culture or social behavior
3. The ability to recognize a pattern when it is illustrated
4. The ability to "explain" a pattern
5. The ability to predict how a pattern is likely to apply in a given situation
6. The ability to describe or manifest an attitude important for making one acceptable in the foreign society
7. The ability to evaluate the form of a statement concerning a culture pattern
8. The ability to describe or demonstrate defensible methods of analyzing a sociocultural whole
9. The ability to identify basic human purposes that make significant the understanding which is being taught, (cited in Lafayette & Schulz, 1997, pp. 578-579)
Instructional goals related to culture
Goal 1-Interest: The student shows curiosity about another culture . . . and empathy toward its members.
Goal 2-Who: The student recognizes that role expectations and other social variables such as age, sex, social class, religion, ethnicity, and place of residence affect the way people speak and behave.
Goal 3-
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