LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

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LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
  1. A SOCIOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE ON LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
    1. What is the language?
      1. Language can be defined as verbal, physical, biologically innate, and a basic form of communication.

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        •    Language can be defined as verbal, physical, biologically innate, and a basic form of communication.   
        1. We use language to express inner thoughts and emotions, make sense of complex and abstract thought, to learn to communicate with others
        2. What is the culture?
          1. Culture is defined as a set of ideas, behaviors, attitudes and traditions that exist with large groups of people -- such as families, countries, ethnicities or religions.
        3. What is linguistic?
          1. Linguistics is concerned with the nature of language and communication. It deals both with the study of particular languages, and the search for general properties common to all languages or large groups of languages
            1. holds that the structure of human language effects the way in which an individual conceptualizes their world
              1. Every human language reflects the values of the place and culture where it originated and philosophers and linguists have long debated how this effects and shapes the mentality of the persons who speak those different languages.
          2. What is Applied Linguistics?
            1. Applied Linguistics is concerned with the systematic study of language structure, the acquisition of first and subsequent languages, the role of language in communication, and the status of language as the product of particular cultures and other social groups
            2. What is sociocultural perspective?
              1. Sociocultural perspective refers to a point of view that is built upon the idea that society and culture are major factors influencing personal development
                1. It is an outlook that considers an individual through the lens of sociocultural theory, a psychological theory that assumes a person's cognitive development is determined by a number of social relations and environmental contexts.
            3. THE IMPORTANCE OF TEACHING CULTURE IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM.
              1. Culture in Language Teaching and Learning
                1. language instruction must be grounded in cultural understanding in order to promote more meaningful and useful language learning. With the emphasis now placed on linguistic and cultural competence, students have the opportunity to explore language in contextual breadth and depth.
                2. What is Culture and why should it be taught?.
                  1. Culture is all complex that includes knowledge, art, beliefs, law, morals, customs and all the habits and skills acquired by man not only in the family, but also to be part of a society as a member
                    1. is so important that we teach culture because everybody should comprehend and identify the diversity as a source of knowledge and reflection
                      1. it should be taught to understand the privilege of living with people who come from another culture, something that we can all carry out, different kind of environment offers us today a great opportunity to open that window to other cultures and to appreciate diversity
                3. tHEORIES
                  1. Noam Chomsky believed that children are born with all of the structures necessary to create language and that they instinctively know how to use them.
                    1. Vygotsky said that language and cultural connections precede learning and cognitive development
                      1. social interactions between people , watching and learning from other speakers ,is how a child (or anyone learning a language) acquires knowledge
                      2. Jean Piaget believed that all children are born with a basic structure for language and cognition and as children develop they are able to learn more complex language and concepts
                        1. In Piaget's theory, children construct both verbal and nonverbal meaning from their environment and culture and those meanings change as children develop and mature
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