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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 | |
| Language, Thought, and Culture | |
| Language and thought | |
| Culture and the written language | |
| Acculturation and mind | |
| Learning a second culture | |
| Cultural Differences and Similarities | |
| How to compare two cultures | |
| Kinesics and cross-cultural understanding | |
| Intercultural differences and communicative approaches to foreign-language teaching in the Third World | |
| ' ... So near the United States' | |
| Cultural clues to the Middle Eastern student | |
| XANADU - 'A miracle of rare device': the teaching of English in China | |
| Compliments in cross-cultural perspective | |
| Classroom Applications | |
| Culture in the classroom | |
| Newspapers: vehicles for teaching ESOL with a cultural focus | |
| Culture in literature | |
| English language teaching from an intercultural perspective | |
| An argument for culture analysis in the second language classroom | |
| Culture bump and beyond | |
| The culture test | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780521310451
ISBN-10: 0521310458
Series: Cambridge Language Teaching Library
Audience:
English as a Second Language (ESL)
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 236
Published: 29th August 1986
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.2
x 1.4
Weight (kg): 0.35
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