Culture & SLA - Week 11 - Culture Lesson Plan Walkthough

Introduction: Hello and welcome to Week 11 of the course Culture and Second Language Aquisition. In this class you will share your culture lesson plan and demonstrate an activity with your peers.

Today's Goals:

• Share your cultural lesson plan with your peers.
• Demonstrate one of your cultural activities with your classmates playing the role of students.
• Give feedback on your partners' plans and activities.

Guiding Questions:

• How can I integrate cultural teaching into the EFL classroom?

Task 1: Visible Culture in Costa Rican National Holidays

We recently enjoyed a day off for the celebration of the Annexation of Nicoya. On this day and other patriotic celebrations you can see many visible cultural symbols. Click the link below and follow the teacher's instructions.

• Cultural Symbols: CLICK HERE

Task 2: Culture Lesson Plan Walkthough

You'll spend the rest of this class working in small groups to lead your peers in a walkthough of your lesson plan and a breif demo of one of your activities. To maximize time, follow these steps for each round.

• Decide who will present and who will keep time. The presenter should spend no more than 8 minutes to summarize the following information form his/her plan. Do NOT read your plan word for word! 

• Topic: Tell your partners the cultural topic you chose and why you chose it.
• Outcomes: Share the outcomes related to the four cultural knowings that you want students to learn, experience, explore, and reflect upon.
• Objectives: Read the objectives for your lesson.
• Walkthough: BRIEFLY summarize the different activities students will do in the lesson.

• Take a maximum of 5 minutes to demonstrate one activity from your lesson. You will obviously need to compress the time significantly.

• Take 2 minutes to share some comments about the lesson and activity your partner just presented.  

References:

Moran, P. (2001). Teaching Culture: Perspectives in Practice. Heinle Cengage Learning.