making culture happen in the english language classroom
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Making Culture Happen in the English Language Classroom
Presenter: Cara Chen
Instructor: Dr.Teresa Hsu
Date: 2014/04/291
Citation
Doganay, Y., Ashirimbetova, M., & Davis, B. (2013). Making Culture Happen in the English Language Classroom. English Language Teaching, 6(10), 11–16.
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Contents
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Introduction Background Purposes
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The issue of introducing the target culture into language classroom practice has long been an object of debates as well as the opinions of the learners towards it.
Introduction
Background
• to examine the effect of culture-based activities on foreign language learning
• to investigate the attitudes of students towards language teaching and learning through culture-based activities
Introduction
Purposes
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Literature review
“Studying culture, we could also learn about the geography, history, etc. of the target culture.”
(Cooke, 1970)
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Literature review
Through the study of other languages, students gain knowledge and understanding of the cultures that use that language; in fact, students cannot truly master the language until they have also mastered the cultural contexts in which the language occurs.
(Coltrane ,2003)
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Participants InstrumentsData collectionProcedure
Materials and methods
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Materials and methods
Participants - Age: 17-21- 32 male, 48 female-University level-Different mother tongues
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Materials and methods
Instruments
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Materials and methods
Data collection
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Materials and methods
Procedure
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Pre-Experiment SurveyThe Post-Experiment Surveys
Results
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Results
Pre-Experiment Survey
The interest of learners towards using culturally-oriented activities in language learning is essential.Students had positive responses for each question.
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Results Post -Experiment
Survey
1. How did the culture-based activities help to improve your English?2. Can you name the most interesting culture-based activity you have ever been involved?3. What other tasks or activities can you suggest to develop communicative skills?
active speaking abilities developed through the activities about different nations.the activities provided an enjoyable and comfortable atmosphere.
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Results Post -Experiment
Survey
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Conclusion
1.The culture-based activities have an effective influence on the development of linguistic as well as communicative competences of the learners.
2.Culture matters for the language learning groups as one of the leading ways of teaching a foreign language is useful.
3. Culture-based exercises stimulate and improve students’ interaction skills and make them use the target language more efficiently.
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Reflections
Cultural issues should be incorporated into the themes or topics of the ESL / EFL curriculum so that students can learn more about each other’s culture.
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