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Teaching Chinese Culture and Communicative Discourse Through Films

Teaching Chinese Culture and Communicative Discourse Through Films. Developed by Lihua Zhang Department of EALC UC Berkeley Presented by Tsueylin Tracy Wang NCCLP, UC Berkeley. Goals for the film clip instruction . Ss will enhance language skills from authentic materials

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Teaching Chinese Culture and Communicative Discourse Through Films

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  1. Teaching Chinese Culture and Communicative Discourse Through Films Developed by Lihua Zhang Department of EALC UC Berkeley Presented by Tsueylin Tracy Wang NCCLP, UC Berkeley

  2. Goals for the film clip instruction • Ss will enhance language skills from authentic materials • Ss will develop target cultural awareness • Ss will compare self culture and the target culture for better cross cultural communication

  3. Objectives of the film clip instruction • Ss will be able to analyze the dialogue in the clip. • Ss will be able to analyze the target culture embedded in the dialogue. • Ss will be able to compare cultural differences from the dialogue.

  4. Film Clip of 《向日葵 The Sun Flower》 《向日葵 The Sun Flower》 Director: 張揚Zhang, Yang 2005 1:31 minutes Simplified Chinese subtitle Ss: non-heritage college students who are in the third year of Chinese language study

  5. Procedures • Listening activity: Play the film clip without showing the images • T invites the Ss to identify how many people are making conversation, who they are, what happen • Play the film clip again. This time the images are shown. • Whole class discussion about the son, the parents, the argument, the causes

  6. 5. T shows a written summary to offer a buildup for the climax 6. Worksheet A for Ss to fill in the responses from the son 7. Play the film clip again and pass the script 8. Discourse analysis (group activity) Worksheet B: Using the script to identify the parents’ utterances as criticism, interrogation, assertion of authority, etc, and the son’s utterance as defiance, deception, etc.

  7. 9. Whole class discussion: Chinese parents’ authority The factor of social status Cultural comparison 10. Ss language production (homework): Worksheet C for Ss to develop their own scripts

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