This book identifies the many facets of culture that influence second language learners and teachers. The paperback edition identifies the many facets of culture that influence second language learners and teachers. It addresses the impact of culture on learning to interact, speak, construct meaning, and write in a second language, while staying within the sociocultural paradigms specific to a particular language and its speakers. By providing a comprehensive introduction to research from other disciplines on the interaction between language and culture, this volume offers an important contribution to the field of second language acquisition.
Contents: CULTURE INTERACTION AND LEARNING 1. Not to waste words or students: Confucian and Socratic discourse in classroom interactions; 2. Second culture acquisition: Cognitive considerations; 3. Developing non-native speaker skills in interpreting coversational implicature in English: Explicit teaching can ease the process; CULTURE AND SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING 4. Culture, context, and writing; 5. Objectivity and credibility in second language writing 6. Representing culture in the ESL writing classroom; CULTURE AND SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS 7. A prosaics of interaction: The development of interactional competence in another language; 8. Some issues in the teaching of pragmatic competence; 9. Teachers and students learning about requests 10. Cultural codes for calls: The use of commercial television in teaching culture in the classroom 11. Cultural mirrors: Materials and methods in the EFL classroom.
