Mind map

The way culture and teaching languages are related

Catalina Arenas Agudelo Spanish

Mind map: culture and teaching languages

Map content

Culture and society are influenced by the language
- To be successful in language learning I need to know about the culture that language comes from
  - Teachers need to teach how a language operates technically and culturally.
Language and culture have a reciprocal relation
- They are connected and one influences the other
  - Language is the way we communicate thoughts, beliefs, feelings and reactions about everything. It is used to express all our traditions and heritage; our particular way to see the world.
    - thoughts
    - beliefs
    - feelings
    - reactions
    - Culture is totally embeeded into the language
      - “A language is a part of a culture and a culture is a part of a language; the two are intricately interwoven so that one can not separate the two without losing the significance of either language or culture.” Brown (2000, p.177):
        If we, as teachers pretend to separate culture from language we are not teaching the language, we only would teach a sum of information without social conection.
        Therefore it is necessary that teachers could talk about the culture, comparing similarities and stating differences between both, target and native language