Culture bound : bridging the cultural gap in language teaching

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.

Preface

Part I Language, Thought, and Culture

1 Language and thoughtFranz Boas

2 Culture and the written languageRobert B. Kaplan

3 Acculturation and mindWilliam R. Acton and Judith Walker de Felix

4 Learning a second cultureH. Douglas Brown

Part II Cultural Differences and Similarities

5 How to compare two culturesRobert Lado

6 Kinesics and cross-cultural understandingGennelle G. Mortain

7 Intercultural differences and communicative approaches to foreign-language teaching in the Third WorldKarl-Heinz Osterloh

8 ' ... So near the United States'John C. Condon

9 Cultural clues to the Middle Eastern studentOrin D. Parker and Educational Services Staff, AFME

10 XANADU - 'A miracle of rare device': the teaching of English in ChinaAlan Maley

11 Compliments in cross-cultural perspectiveNessa Wolfson

Part III Classroom Applications

12 Culture in the classroomNelson Brooks

13 Newspapers: vehicles for teaching ESOL with a cultural focusCharles H. Blatchford

14 Culture in literatureJoyce Merrill Valdes

15 English language teaching from an intercultural perspectiveStephen C. Dunnett and Fraida Dubin and Amy Lezberg

16 An argument for culture analysis in the second language classroomGeorge H. Hughes

17 Culture bump and beyondCarol M. Archer

18 The culture testRebecca M. Valette

Bibliography

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