Culture & SLA - Week 14 - Culture and Materials Evaluation

Introduction: Hello and welcome to Week 14 of the course Culture and Second Language Acquisition for the master's in English teaching at ULACIT term IIIC0 2022.  In this class we will reflect on what we have learned, articluate our final takeaways from the course, and share our textbook analysis assignments.

Today's Goals:

• Look back and topics, assignments, and activities covered in this course and express ways in which our beliefs and understandings of culture have changed, deepened, or remained the same.
• Present your analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of a commercial language teaching coursebook for the purposes of teaching culture.

Guiding Questions:

• What are my takeaways from this course?
• How can I be a critical user of coursebooks for the purposes of teaching language and culture?

Warm Up: Final Course Reflection

Over the last 14 weeks we have covered a lot of content related to the nature of culture, culture's relationship with the nature of culture, how culture is learned, how to teach culture, and other topics in SLA that have connections to culture. 

• Demonstrate your ability to describe and interpret cultural features using technical terminology and references to relevant theory from the course in a 10-12 minute podcast analyzing a film.

• 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.

• Demonstrate your ability to plan a learning sequence in order to teach an aspect of culture in accordance with theory studied in the course.

• Demonstrate your ability to critically evaluate commercial language teaching materials for the purposes of teaching culture.

• Read and respond to 11 articles or chapters about a variety of topics related to culture, culture learning and teaching, and connections between culture and SLA.

Click the group link below and complete the reflection.

• Group Link: CLICK HERE

Task 1: Textbook Analysis Presentations

Now it's time to share your textbook analysis projects. After each presentation we will save some time for peer feedback.

Peer Feedback Framework

References:

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