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WHOSE CULTURE IS IT ANYWAY? David A. Hill

WHOSE CULTURE IS IT ANYWAY? David A. Hill. It is a truism to say that teaching language is teaching culture, but what exactly does it mean? How can learners in the artificial and standardized environment of a classroom have access to the central code of another culture? Kramsch: 1993: 177.

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WHOSE CULTURE IS IT ANYWAY? David A. Hill

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  1. WHOSE CULTURE IS IT ANYWAY? David A. Hill

  2. It is a truism to say that teaching languageis teaching culture, but what exactly does it mean? How can learners in the artificial and standardized environment of a classroom have accessto the central code of another culture? Kramsch: 1993: 177

  3. But whose language are we teaching?

  4. On the reality of facts and events that constitutea nation’s history and culture is superimposeda cultural imagination that is no less real.This cultural imagination or public consciousness has been formed by centuries of literary textsand other artistic productions, as well asby a certain public discourse in the pressand other media. Kramsch: 1993: 207

  5. Culture refers to widely shared ideals, values, formation and uses of categories, assumptions about life and goal-directed activities that become unconsciously or subconsciously accepted as ‘right’ and ‘correct’ by people who identify themselvesas members of a society. Brislin R W (Ed) (1990) Applied Cross-Cultural Psychology. Sage

  6. ‘Given the lingua franca status of English,it is clear that much of the world needsand uses English for instrumental reasonssuch as professional contacts, academic studies and commercial pursuits.(…)’ Alptekin 2002: 61

  7. A global culture is emerging wherein cultural artefacts are being created in the English language by non-native speakers…The artefact itself is not necessarily steeped in the distinctivenessof a defined and unique culture, but is insteada marker of world culture. Mondiano 2001:342

  8. INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE - our ability to understand and function in other cultures Sapir-Whorf: our thinking is determined by language; people who speak different languages see and make sense of the world differently

  9. MONOLINGUALvsMULTILINGUAL CLASSES

  10. References Aptekin C (2002) Towards intercultural communicative competence in ELT. ELTJ 56/1 pp57-64 Cleary M (2008) World Around: An intercultural journey through English-speaking Countries. Rum: Helbling Languages. Dogancay-Aktuna S (2005) Intercultural communication in English language teacher education. ELTJ 59/2 pp 99-107 Johnson G / Rinvolucri R (2010) Culture in our Classrooms. Peaslake: Delta Publishing Kramsch C (1993) Context and Culture in Language Teaching. Oxford: OUP. Mondiano M (2001) Linguistic imperialism, cultural integrity and EIL. ELTJ 55/4 pp 339-346 Porto M (2010) Culturally responsive L2 education: an awareness-raising proposal. ELTJ 64/1 pp 45-53 Sowden C (2007) Culture and the ‘good teacher’ in the English language classroom. ELTJ 61/4 pp 304-310 Tomalin B / Stempleski S (1993) Cultural Awareness. Oxford: OUP. Tseng Y-H (2002) A lesson in culture. ELTJ 56/1 pp 11-21

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