Some teaching materials
Follow these links to see drafts and excerpts
from my two books-in-development (pretty much
slight variations on the same topic) based on
teaching materials compiled over the years:
www.language-and-culture.net
"Eavesdropping on the Cultural Conversation: A
course in language and culture for Taiwan's
Applied Foreign Languages departments"
http://language-and-culture.neddanison.com/Intro
duction.html
"Encountering Culture in People, Language and
Media: A resource for teachers and students of
American English in Taiwan's Applied Foreign
Language Departments"
Follow these links to see drafts and excerpts
from my two books-in-development (pretty much
slight variations on the same topic) based on
teaching materials compiled over the years:
www.language-and-culture.net
"Eavesdropping on the Cultural Conversation: A
course in language and culture for Taiwan's
Applied Foreign Languages departments"
http://language-and-culture.neddanison.com/Intro
duction.html
"Encountering Culture in People, Language and
Media: A resource for teachers and students of
American English in Taiwan's Applied Foreign
Language Departments"
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My Research:
1. As students of foreign language learn language, what do they learn about the culture in which that
language is spoken?
- What are their evolving concepts of that culture, and what informs these concepts?
- How much culture is carried in the code (the language itself)?
- What is the essential non-code information necessary for basic cultural competence?
2. Each language forms a coherent conceptual system.
- Will learning the language code enable learners to interact appropriately in the culture(s) in
which the language is spoken?
- Are cultural values encoded in the language?
- Can a small number of "concept labels" (words) be distilled from a given language to serve as a
guide to learning its conceptual system?
And therefore, as a practical application, what specific cultural content must foreign language
teachers teach?
1. As students of foreign language learn language, what do they learn about the culture in which that
language is spoken?
- What are their evolving concepts of that culture, and what informs these concepts?
- How much culture is carried in the code (the language itself)?
- What is the essential non-code information necessary for basic cultural competence?
2. Each language forms a coherent conceptual system.
- Will learning the language code enable learners to interact appropriately in the culture(s) in
which the language is spoken?
- Are cultural values encoded in the language?
- Can a small number of "concept labels" (words) be distilled from a given language to serve as a
guide to learning its conceptual system?
And therefore, as a practical application, what specific cultural content must foreign language
teachers teach?
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