CULTURE IS A VERB. Street (1993b: 25,
emphasis in the original)
Value Systems and Habits
Organizations
Family
Religion
Social Levels
Among others
Conflict
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Ecology and technology
Individuals
Intra-personal variation
Cross-cultural knowledge
Langauge
When learning a Language
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.
Society
Culture
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.
Creates Utterances. Local specific linguistic resources