“Little c ” Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom

1. “Little c” Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom Presenters: Jessica Bickert, Kelly Eichenlaub, John MacDonald, Cameron Murray, KayleenNotchick

2. Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBuKuA9nHsw

3. Overview

4. Overview

5. Overview Culture

6. Overview culture

7. Overview Summary

8. The Cultural Iceberg “Big C” “little c”

9. A Waste of Time

10. Teaching No Culture • + • Time • – • Ethnocentrism • Lack of Dialectical language • Culture shock

11. Teaching Solely “Big C” Culture • + • Broad, extensive overview • “C–ing” culture • – • Overgeneralization • Stereotyping • Misunderstanding

12. Teaching “little c” Culture • + • Ethnorelativism • Culture + language • Comprehensive analysis • – • Time • Hard to assess

13. Summary Implementation Vitality Curriculum Conflict

14. The Three Step Plan 1. Get over yourself 2. What can you “C”? 3. Ask why.

15. Conclusion What should students take away from the foreign language that they studied in high school? It is not likely that students will remember every single vocabulary word or verb conjugation of the target language. But if students can celebrate differences as unique rather than wrong, then language teachers have done their job.

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