Response 4- Culture in Second Language article

Learning a second Language is not only the study of grammar components, learn how to read, to write and or how to speak very well is more than that it is also to learn about the culture of the languague we are learning: their beliefs, customs, traditions, ways of thinking.

For this reasons teachers have to incorporate in their classes and in the curriculum the teaching of culture in second language. And how we do that?

Instructional Strategies for Teaching Language and Culture:

1. Authentic Materials
2. Role Plays
3. Cultural Capsules
4. The use of films
5. Students as cultural resources
6. Literature
7. Songs

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http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/0309peterson.html