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Moloney, Robyn Anne – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2013
Language pedagogy in Australia, North America and Europe has been influenced in the past 20 years by a sociocultural understanding of language and culture, which has asked teachers to adopt an intercultural approach, integrating critical cultural reflection within language learning. Due to the diversity of backgrounds, however, different groups of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, Chinese, Asians
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Thompson, Celia Helen – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2011
When preparing teaching materials about communication between people from different linguistic backgrounds, many factors require consideration; these include theoretical orientation, purpose, context, educational needs, study level, as well as the cultural backgrounds of the teachers and their target learners. The classroom activity described in…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Intercultural Communication, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
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Luk, Jasmine – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2012
An increasingly important curricular aim of teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) is to develop learners' intercultural competence for communication with people from different cultures through English. English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers' perceptions and practices in relation to integrating culture with English learning have been…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Dweik, Bader S. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2000
Explores and illustrates the ways in which the Chechen language and culture are preserved in Jordan, despite a passage of almost 100 years since Chechen first arrived in the country. Examines the relationship between language maintenance and the non-linguistic processes that affect the outcome of the language situation. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Arabic, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Cultural Maintenance
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Pritchard, Rosalind M. O. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1995
Reviews an action research project undertaken by an EFL teacher with her Japanese students in a residential course in England. The study consisted of teacher-student interviews on differences between the British and Japanese ways of life. The article discusses the Japanese notion of "amae" and presents pedagogical implications for…
Descriptors: Action Research, College Students, Community Responsibility, Cross Cultural Studies
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Masny, Diana; Ghahremani-Ghajar, Sue-san – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1999
An ethnographic case study of Somali children in Canadian schools examines the relationship between literacies, school, and community cultures by exploring literacy events as they unfold for Somali children in an elementary school. Field notes and interviews involving Somali and school-community members are analyzed based on the view that…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Cultural Differences, Educational Environment