Zusammenfassung der Ressource
language and culture
- THEORIES, LANGUAGES, AND CULTURE
- The theory theory
- Language as evidence
- Languages , culture and theorizing
- The children conceptual system is
capable of multiple construal of the
world, and the constraints
determine which of those construal
will be encoded.
- Developmental
relations between
languages and cognition
- Crosslinguistic studies
- It is related to the understanding of actions,
concepts encoded by verbs, and delayed in their
understanding of objects kinds, concept
encoded by nouns
- what is culture
- the representations and interpretations that the persons have of the
different elements that make up our environment, depending on the nature
of our experiences and exchanges,
- culture and education
- help us
- recreate true actions of changes that
motivate the re significance of knowledge
- in terms of
- what is learned is linked to the context in which we have learned, i.e.,
classroom and all teaching learning process initiated in it, have to start by
the exchange of experiences or experimental semantics of the child for a
significant assimilation of the contents and the different disciplines that
interact there.
- The school has to become a space of interaction rather
than imposition
- exchange not juxtaposition, debate rather than rhetoric
- so the child can generate strategies that allow them to use and
create new concepts that prevail to reinterpret their reality and
have a more complete concept of what he had conceived from
their experience
- for this reconstruction of the thought process is required starting from the
experimental culture of the child and create a space for knowledge
- Languages plays a crucial role in our human
projects, allowing us to understand the world
that is around us
- children use languages as a source of evidence. When
children start to understand syntax and a morphology,
and begins to appreciate the propositional structure of
language, language might play another and strong role in
their theory formation.
- Culture learning
- is the process of personal growth and transformation Person
learns to build intercultural bridges and in the end becomes a new
cultural person to create sociocultural competences
- Sociocultural Competence
- Defined as the students’ ability to accomplish proper
cross-cultural communication (Sut, 2003)
- It is also someone who has a critical or analytical
understanding of their own and other cultures, someone who
is conscious of their own perspective, of the way in which their
thinking is culturally determined
- represented in knowledge of the
language (non-equivalent and normal
vocabulary), knowledge of national
culture, and the norms of behavior.
- involves five elements
- Attitudes
- Knowledge
- Skills of interpreting and relating
- Skills of discovery and interaction
- Critical cultural awareness/political
education
- attitudes and skills
- • observing, identifying and recognizing • comparing and
contrasting • negotiating meaning • dealing with or tolerating
ambiguity • effectively interpreting messages • limiting the
possibility of misinterpretation • defending one's own point of view
while acknowledging the legitimacy of others • accepting difference
- requirement for the appropriate use of a foreign
language in specific cultural situations
- 1. Identification of a cultural theme 2. Presentation of
cultural phenomena 3. Dialogue (target/native cultures) 4.
Transition to language learning 5. Language learning 6.
Verification of perceptions (target/native culture) 7.
Cultural awareness 8. Evaluation of language and cultural
proficiency
- students take part in guided discussions, role-plays, solving intercultural incidents, doing
exercises on critical thinking, presentations of projects
- These techniques enable the students to:
- understand the concept of intercultural awareness
- recognize the origins of their own cultural values,
assumptions and attitudes and the way in which
their values affect their perception of others
- observe, monitor and report on their
own cultural learning
- develop attitudes and strategies which will help
adapt to life in a foreign country and operate
autonomously in that country
- explore how their perception of their own
character, attitudes and behavior might influence
their cultural learning
- identify causes of intercultural misunderstandings