Culture & SLA - Week 11 - Culture Lesson Plan Walkthrough

Introduction: Hello and welcome to Week 11 of the course Culture and Second Language Acquisition for the master's in English teaching at ULACIT term IIIC0 2022. This week 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?

Warm Up: Visible Culture in Costa Rican National Holidays

On Independence Day and in 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 1: 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 10 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.

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

• Feedback and Discussion: Take 5 minutes to share some comments about the lesson and activity your partner just presented.

Task 3: Reading Group Workshop

Now it's time for your reading group workshop. Before we participate in your presentations, let's quickly review the learning objective and justification.

• Learning Objective: Demonstrate your ability to read an academic article and accurately identify and synthesize key concepts presented in the text in order to lead a group discussion exploring the implications of the theory to your teaching practice.

• Justification: A key skill of a professional educator is the ability to draw upon relevant theory from academic literature from the field in order to inform his or her teaching practice. Although academic texts can be challenging, it is essential to develop the ability to read, interpret, and synthesize the core ideas of academic articles when pursuing a degree in a graduate level program.

• Group 1: Natalia and Sandra - Cultural Codes for Calls: The use of commercial television in teaching culture in the classroom

• Group 2: Francisco, Peter, & Stephanie - Cultural Mirrors: Materials and methods in the EFL classroom

• Group 3: David, Jessica, & Arianna - Materials for Cultural Awareness

Peer Feedback Framework

References:

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