Rising cultural awareness group 4

Rising cultural awareness group 4

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  RAISING CULTURAL AWARENESS Group 4: 1.Nana Apriliana 2. Primadina Cahyati 3. Astri Olivia ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, GRADUATED SCHOOL, YOGYAKARTA STATE UNIVERSITY
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  OUTLINE  Introduction  CulturalUnderstanding  Critical Cultural Awareness/ Consciousness  Microstrategies for Rising Cultural Awareness/ Consciousness  Exploratory Project  Reference
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  CULTURE A small “c” Culturepersonal construct patterns of behavior, values, and beliefs that guide the everyday life of an individual or a group of individuals within a cultural community A big “C” Culture societal construct (societal endeavors) theater, dance, music, literature, and art
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  HISTORICALLY L2 learning and teaching Abig “C” “Hidden Curriculum” (Micheal Byram (1989)
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  H.H. Stein (1992) Culture Teaching Cognitive Component Affective component Behavioral component
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  Stein (1992) • “Oneof the important aims of culture teaching is to help the learner gain an understanding of the native speaker's perspective”(p. 216).
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  Limited View ofCulture • Culture narrowly associates cultural identity with national identity or linguistic identity. • Ignores diversity of world views that learners bring to the classroom
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  CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING human beingsinterpret their cross-cultural experiences, and how they construct meaning in cross-cultural encounters Different View Recent exploration by L2 educationist
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  Robinson (1985) “cultural versatility” “expandingone’s repertoire of experiences and behaviors, not subtracting anything” Robinson (1991) Theory of L2 acquisition: Color Purple One’s own cultural lens = Blue + Different person cultural lens = Red = purple Kramsch (1993) “Third Culture” conceptual space that recognizes the L2 classroom as the site of intersection of multiple worlds of discourse.
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  a true understandingof dynamic of the classroom can emerge only through Critical Cultural Consciousness
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  CRITICAL CULTURAL CONSCIOUSNESS Understanding thecultural dynamics of the L2 classroom Requiring the recognition of a simple truth What is the global reality today? What drives both economic and cultural globalization? Economic globalization Cultural globalization Global electronic communication Disappearing borders Shrinking time Shrinking space Internet
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  CONTINUE....... What the individualneeds to make proper use of that resource? What guides to this reflection? Learning other culture is not only expands cultural horizon but also clarifies and solidifies one cultural heritage. There are two main function of Critical Consciousness A critically reflective mind Individual value of their own cultural heritage Renewal Change
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  TEACHERS AND LEARNERS ASCULTURAL INFORMANTS How we treat the learner as a cultural informant: give chance, and share Two possibilities when the learners as an informant: what they have, and what they know What will happen about raising cultural consciousness in the L2 classroom?
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  MICROSTRATEGIES FOR RISINGCULTURAL AWARENESS/ CONSCIOUSNESS  Microstrategy 12.1: Cultural Profile  Microstrategy 12.2: Thanksgiving  Microstrategy 12.3: Hero and Hero-Worship
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  EXPLORATORY PROJECT  Project12.1: Happy New Year  Project 12.2: Culture and Airplane Crashes
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  REFERENCE  Kumaravadivelu, B.2003. Beyond methods: Microstrategies fro language teaching. New Haven & london: Yale University Press.