Culture Bound Bridging the Cultural Gap in Language Teaching

Name: Culture Bound Bridging the Cultural Gap in Language Teaching
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ISBN: 9780521310451

ISBN-10: 0521310458

ISBN-13: 9780521310451

Edition: 1986

Authors: Joyce Merrill Valdes, Michael Swan

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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.

Book details

List price: $61.50
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/29/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



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