sábado, 17 de mayo de 2008

LANGUAGE AS PART OF CULTURE

Language is part of culture because humans that use the same language also have more or less the same behaviour code. This code generaly should be exclusive of that language. Taking into account this, I can say that people who have not the same behaviour code are not going to speak the same language.
With this I'm not saying that all the people of one country that speaks the same language are going to act all of the in the same way. With this, what I can explain is that one language implies one culture, and all the people of that culture are going to have the say traditions and ways to live and do things.
As we soon are going to be English teachers, I found it neccesary to transfert this topic into the educational system. At the same time that we are teaching the language, we also have to introduce the culture of that place in order to children learn the language as a whole.

This is an intereating book that explain how to teach a language and cultue to chilndren: http://www.cambridge.org/elt/elt_projectpage.asp?id=2500493

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