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9780521310451

Culture Bound: Bridging the Cultural Gap in Language Teaching

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521310451

  • ISBN10:

    0521310458

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1986-08-29
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

This book is designed to give language teachers a basis for introducing a cultural component into their teaching. The paperback edition is a collection of selected essays that attempts to provide language teachers with a basis for introducing a cultural component into their teaching. It includes essays written especially for the volume, as well as some that have been previously published.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Part I Language, thought, and culture 1(48)
Language and thought
5(3)
Franz Boas
Culture and the written language
8(12)
Robert B. Kaplan
Acculturation and mind
20(13)
William R. Acton
Judith Walker de Felix
Learning a second culture
33(16)
H. Douglas Brown
Part II Cultural differences and similarities 49(72)
How to compare two cultures
52(12)
Robert Lado
Kinesics and cross-cultural understanding
64(13)
Genelle G. Morain
Intercultural differences and communicative approaches to foreign-language teaching in the Third World
77(8)
Karl-Heinz Osterloh
``... So near the United States''
85(9)
John C. Condon
Cultural clues to the Middle Eastern student
94(8)
Orin D. Parker
XANADU - ``A miracle of rare device'': the teaching of English in China
102(10)
Alan Maley
Compliments in cross-cultural perspective
112(9)
Nessa Wolfson
Part III Classroom applications 121(77)
Culture in the classroom
123(7)
Nelson Brooks
Newspapers: Vehicles for teaching ESOL with a cultural focus
130(7)
Charles H. Blatchford
Culture in literature
137(11)
Joyce Merrill Valdes
English language teaching from an intercultural perspective
148(14)
Stephen C. Dunnett
Fraida Dubin
Amy Lezberg
An argument for culture analysis in the second language classroom
162(8)
George H. Hughes
Culture bump and beyond
170(9)
Carol M. Archer
The culture test
179(19)
Rebecca M. Valete
Bibliography 198(21)
Index 219

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