Culture Bound: Bridging the Cultural Gap in Language Teaching

Abstract

Preface Part I. Language, Thought, and Culture: 1. Language and thought Franz Boas 2. Culture and the written language Robert B. Kaplan 3. Acculturation and mind William R. Acton and Judith Walker de Felix 4. Learning a second culture H. Douglas Brown Part II. Cultural Differences and Similarities: 5. How to compare two cultures Robert Lado 6. Kinesics and cross-cultural understanding Gennelle G. Mortain 7. Intercultural differences and communicative approaches to foreign-language teaching in the Third World Karl-Heinz Osterloh 8. ' ... So near the United States' John C. Condon 9. Cultural clues to the Middle Eastern student Orin D. Parker and Educational Services Staff, AFME 10. XANADU - 'A miracle of rare device': the teaching of English in China Alan Maley 11. Compliments in cross-cultural perspective Nessa Wolfson Part III. Classroom Applications: 12. Culture in the classroom Nelson Brooks 13. Newspapers: vehicles for teaching ESOL with a cultural focus Charles H. Blatchford 14. Culture in literature Joyce Merrill Valdes 15. English language teaching from an intercultural perspective Stephen C. Dunnett, Fraida Dubin and Amy Lezberg 16. An argument for culture analysis in the second language classroom George H. Hughes 17. Culture bump and beyond Carol M. Archer 18. The culture test Rebecca M. Valette Bibliography Index.