General Concepts

Conclusion: Building Bridges

• * Articulate your own working definition of “culture” and your goals for cultural instruction.

• * Move away from the idea of “teaching culture

• * Don’t simply provide students with cultural facts or products. Students really need to EXPERIENCE aspects of the target culture for themselves => include more learner-centered activities.

• * Instead, think of it as “teaching for cultural awareness,” “teaching for cultural understanding,” thus as helping students to build bridges between C1 and C2, and maybe find a “third space” (C3) in between (Kramsch).

References

• * See the list of useful references (Word document) distributed to all participants