06.26.13 ~ Curtain and Dahlberg, Chapter 9
I loved reading this chapter. It is all about how you can make culture a defining part of the foreign language experience. The importance of culture in learning foreign language is something I have always been adamant about, so I found that I was stopping and saying things like, "Yes, that's right!" a lot when I was reading this chapter. Many of the suggestions reminded me of things I had done with my own students in Japan. I especially champion the idea of a cultural exchange between another classroom in the country of the target language. This may even be valid in an ESL context in America if you have your students exchange correspondence with students in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, or another country with many native English speakers.
I loved reading this chapter. It is all about how you can make culture a defining part of the foreign language experience. The importance of culture in learning foreign language is something I have always been adamant about, so I found that I was stopping and saying things like, "Yes, that's right!" a lot when I was reading this chapter. Many of the suggestions reminded me of things I had done with my own students in Japan. I especially champion the idea of a cultural exchange between another classroom in the country of the target language. This may even be valid in an ESL context in America if you have your students exchange correspondence with students in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, or another country with many native English speakers.
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