REFLECTION, SELF-ASSESSMENT AND PORTFOLIO CREATION

1 Using the ‘Self-assessment Grid’, reflect on the information you obtained while working at the unit 3, competences you developed.

2 Collect the best papers (mind-maps, etc.) created by you in your ‘Portfolio File 3’.

UNIT 4 The Interaction of Languages ​ ​ and Culture

The Relationships between Language and Culture

LEAD-IN

Read the quotations and share your opinions in small groups. What evidence can you present to the debate?

“Language learning and culture learning are two sides of a sheet of paper. You cannot remove one from the other” Jeremy Harmer

 

“Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going”

Rita Mae Brown

INFORMATION-ACCUMULATION: READING

Read the text and explain its main idea.

The Relationship between Language and Culture

The relationship between language and culture is deeply rooted. Language is used to maintain and convey culture and cultural ties. One can see that learning a new language involves the learning of a new culture. Consequently, teachers of a language are also teachers of culture.

The implications of language being completely entwined in culture, in regards for language teaching and language policy are far reaching. Language teachers must instruct their students on the cultural background of language usage, choose culturally appropriate teaching styles, and explore culturally based linguistic differences to promote understanding instead of misconceptions or prejudices. Language policy must be used to create awareness and understandings of cultural differences.
Teachers must instruct their students on the cultural background of language usage. If one teaches language without teaching about the culture in which it operates, the students are learning empty or meaningless symbols or they may attach the incorrect meaning to what is being taught. The students, when using the learnt language, may use the language inappropriately or within the wrong cultural context, thus defeating the purpose of learning a language.

[82] Aubrey Neil Leveridge for TEFL.net, 2015

Answer the following questions.

1. What relevance does intercultural communication have to language education?

2. How far should teachers be familiar with the culture of foreign language they teach?

3. What is culture teaching in a foreign language teaching context?

4. Is it necessary for teachers to be trained in intercultural communication?

5. Is it important to raise consciousness of cultural differences in the classroom?

 

What position would you have in these situations? Discuss them in small groups explaining your point of view.

1. " It is better to study major international languages like English rather than to spend time on minority languages for the sake of regional identity."

2. " Cultural differences cause problems. It is better for people to stay in their own countries rather than to migrate to other ones."

COMMUNICATION

Give your own definition of intercultural communication.

Read the definition of intercultural communication and check your answer.

Intercultural communication is defined as situated communication between individuals or groups of different linguistic and cultural origins. This is derived from the following fundamental definitions: communication is the active relationship established between people through language, and intercultural means that this communicative relationship is between people of different cultures, where culture is the structured manifestation of human behaviour in social life within specific national and local contexts, e.g. political, linguistic, economic, institutional, and professional.

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INFORMATION-ACCUMULATION:

WATCHING A VIDEO

Could you explain the difference between monoculture and multiculture? List examples of monoculture in a positive view and in a negative view.

2 Watch a video by Erin Meyer ‘Low Context vs. High Context Societies’, and fill the table with following words and collocations.

Source: https: //www.youtube.com/watch? v=9oYfhTC9lIQ [83]

 

Fill in the table.

Recap, message passed simply and clearly, layered communication, a large body of shared context, explicit communication, low level of shared context, clarification, to be able to see the meaning if one want, implicit communication.

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