Every society orchestrates the ways in which children participate in particular situations, and this, in
turn, affects the form, the function and the content of children’s utterances; caregivers’ primary
concern is not with grammatical input, but with the 5. transmission of sociocultural knowledge; 6.
the native learner, in addition to language, acquires also the 7. paralinguistic patterns and the
kinesics of his or her culture.
Culture as sociocultural practice
A socially constituted approach to the study of language and culture.
Society
Creates Utterances. Local specific linguistic resources
Single voiced Uterances
Double voiced Utterances.
Passive
Speakes uses the word's
conventional meaning
Active
Speaker gives meaning
Theories Language and Culture
The Theory Theory
Language, Culture and Theorizing
Developmental relations between language and culture
Language as evidence
Theories, language and relativity in adults
Importance on teaching culture in the foreign language clasroom
Needs and principles for culture teaching
Culture and teaching language skills
CULTURE IS A VERB. Street (1993b: 25,
emphasis in the original)
Crosscultural Knowledge
Individuals
Intra-personal variation
Ecology and Technology
Conflict
Intrapersonal
Interpersonal
Organizations
Value Systems and habits
The goal of learning is to decentre learners from their own culture-based assumptions and to
develop an intercultural identity as a result of an engagement with an additional culture. Here the
borders between self and other are explored, problematised and redrawn.