Culture

1=Recall/Recognition/Description            2=Explanation            3=Application            4=Evaluation            5=Synthesis

2/3<    The National Standards ~ Culture
  • 2.1, 2.2:    Products,  Practices, Perspectives  (The Culture Triangle)
  • 4.2: Comparing Cultures
Omaggio Hadley  (Ch. 8)
  5<    What is culture?

2< Reasons why the teaching of culture remains a challenge

1<  "naive lexical hypothesis"
1<  common approaches to teaching of culture (Galloway, 1985)


1<    Six goals as a framework for cultural instruction with all students (Seelye, 1993)

2/3<    What suggestions does Lafayette make for integrating cultural information with language study?

2<    Galloway's (1992) four-stage approach to cultural reading of authentic materials

2<     Spinelli and Siskin's (1992) recommendations for vocabulary practice

3-5<    Semantic mapping is a strategy often used in first-language literacy development, and it can be very helpful  for second language instruction as well.  Choose a topic and develop it into a semantic map.
 

Curtain & Dahlberg (Ch. 9)

2<  Draw the Culture Triangle, explain the three P's, and give examples of each.

3<    Choose a feature of the target culture that is suitable for the development of a fantasy experience. Explain how you would enact the fantasy in the classroom, using the guidelines in the chapter.

1<    Classroom Exchanges