Language and Culture Final Task

Language and Culture Final Task

1. Socio-cultural perspective

   • Language as a socio-cultural resource
     • Every society orchestrates the ways in which children participate in particular situations, and this, in turn, affects the form, the function and the content of children’s utterances; caregivers’ primary concern is not with grammatical input, but with the 5. transmission of sociocultural knowledge; 6. the native learner, in addition to language, acquires also the 7. paralinguistic patterns and the kinesics of his or her culture.
   • Culture as sociocultural practice
   • A socially constituted approach to the study of language and culture.
     • Society
       • Creates Utterances. Local specific linguistic resources
         • Single voiced Uterances
         • Double voiced Utterances.
           • Passive
             • Speakes uses the word's conventional meaning
           • Active
             • Speaker gives meaning

2. Theories Language and Culture

   • The Theory Theory
   • Language, Culture and Theorizing
   • Developmental relations between language and culture
   • Language as evidence
   • Theories, language and relativity in adults

3. Importance on teaching culture in the foreign language clasroom

   • Needs and principles for culture teaching
   • Culture and teaching language skills
   • CULTURE IS A VERB. Street (1993b: 25, emphasis in the original)
     • Crosscultural Knowledge
     • Individuals
       • Intra-personal variation
     • Ecology and Technology
     • Conflict
       • Intrapersonal
       • Interpersonal
     • Organizations
     • Value Systems and habits
   • The goal of learning is to decentre learners from their own culture-based assumptions and to develop an intercultural identity as a result of an engagement with an additional culture. Here the borders between self and other are explored, problematised and redrawn.

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