Teach a new language like learning it is a hard-work for teachers and students. Learn a new language is not only be able to communicate in that language. To learn it as a whole more important that teach just the langue is to teach the culture of that. For children is important to know how people of that country
address people, express gratitude, make requests, and agree or disagree with someone. When the learn this kind of thing the not get lost when speaking with native people.
Studying the language, children have to gain a knowledge and understanding of the culture of that langue and this is a work that in my oppinion good teacher should have to do. As we are going to be teachers I think that we need to be aware that children learn easier a language if they learn also the behaviour code of that new language. It is important also to include culture in the foreign language curriculum, because it helps avoid the stereotypes. It gives students to take control of their own learning process.
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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
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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