Teaching Culture: Perspectives in Practice

Resources for Culture

Anand, S. (2012).Culture Identity Model

Banks, J. A. (2013). Cultural Diversity and Education (excerpts)

Corbett, J. (2003) Chapter 1 (pp. 1-5) in “An Intercultural Approach to English Language Teaching (Links to an external site.)

Moran, P. (2001). Teaching Culture: Perspectives in Practice: Chapter 3, Defining Culture

Soy pan, soy paz, soy más… Mercedes Sosa  (VIDEO)

• (Credits: voice: Mercedes Sosa; music “Piero”; poem:Luis Ramon Iz  (Links to an external site.)Luis RamÓn IgarzÁbal) (Links to an external site.)
• (or if you prefer, here isa version of the same with the lyrics superimposed on the images

Resources for Self-Portrait

• Brown University’s Diversity Kit (Links to an external site.). Scroll down to Part II: Culture, pages 1 through 13.
• Corbett, J. (2003) Chapter 1 (pp. 5-10) in “An Intercultural Approach to English Language Teaching (Links to an external site.)
• Higgins, C. (2011). The formation of L2 selves in a globalizing world (Chapter 1 (Links to an external site.) in the eBook “Identity Formation in Globalizing Contexts.”)
• Selasi, T. (2014) TED talk: Don’t ask me where I’m from, ask me where I’m local (Links to an external site.)

Texts:

• Brown University’s Diversity Kit (Links to an external site.). Scroll down to Part II: Culture, pages 1 through 13.
• Corbett, J. (2003) Chapter 1 (pp. 5-10) in “An Intercultural Approach to English Language Teaching (Links to an external site.)
• Higgins, C. (2011). The formation of L2 selves in a globalizing world (Chapter 1 (Links to an external site.) in the eBook “Identity Formation in Globalizing Contexts.”)
• Selasi, T. (2014) TED talk: Don’t ask me where I’m from, ask me where I’m local (Links to an external site.)

• Appadurai, A. (1990). Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy. (Links to an external site.) (Higgins refers to five cultural “scapes” as defined by the anthropologist Arjun Apparurai: this link will take you to the original article Higgins cites if you want to read more about his idea.)
• Fu, D. (2009). Writing between languages (Links to an external site.). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. (Print book you can request through interlibrary loan, or buy. If you are a public school teacher, you will appreciate Fu’s research on and examples of how teachers use the L1 literacy skills of newly arrived U.S. secondary public school students’ L1 to scaffold writing in English.)
• Higgins, C. (2011). Identity Formation in Globalizing Contexts: (Links to an external site.) Epilogue, and the introductions to parts I, II and III. (Links to an external site.)
• Kramsch, C. (2013). Culture in foreign language teaching.