CULTURE

Group and units

Survival

AttitudesValuesBeliefNorms

Behaviours

Shared by a

group

Communicated accross generations

Dynamic

System of rules

CULTURE

Culture is a dynamic system of rules, explicit and implicit, established by groups in order to ensure their survival, involving attitudes, values, beliefs, norms, and behaviors shared by a group but harbored differently by each

specific unit within the group, communicated across generations, relatively stable but with

the potential to change across time.

Matsumoto (2000, p.24)

LANGUAGE

CULTURE

• STEREOTYPES OR GENERALIZATIONS

•ATTITUDES TEACHING INTERCULTURAL

COMPETENCE

•SECOND CULTURE ADQUISITION

•SOCIAL DISTANCE

•LANGUAGE POLICY AND POLITICS

•LANGUAGE, THOUGHT AND CULTURE

• CONCLUSION

Attitudes, like all aspects of the development of recognition and affect in human beings,

develop early in childhood and are the result of parents´and peers´attitudes, of contact

with people who are “different” in any number of ways, and of interacting affective

factors in the human experience.

These attitudes form a part of one´s perception of self, of others, and of the

culture in which one is living.

CULTURAL SHOCKSTAGES

Stage 1

Stage 2Stage 3

Stage 4

SOCIAL DISTANCE

Refers to the cognitive and affective proximity of two cultures that come

into contact within an individual.

ParametersDominance

Integration

Cohesiveness

Congruence

Permanence

The greater the social distance between two cultures,t he greater the difficulty the learner will have in learning the second language, and conversely, the smaller the social distance (the

greater the social solidarity between culture), the better will be the language learning situation.

Word Englishes

ESL and EFL

Linguistic Imperialism and Language Rights

Language Policy and the “ English Only” Debate