GUYS FROM CULTURE; THESE ARE THE TOPCS(USA) YOU MUST SEARCH ABOUT

The Northeast Region
• The Appalachian Mountains
• The Amish

The Southeast Region
• The Okefenokee Swamp
• The Cajuns

The Midwest Region
• The Great Lakes
• The Great Chicago Fire

The Southwest Region
• The Grand Canyon
• Tex-Mex cuisine

The West Region
• Mount Kilauea
• The Inuit of Alaska

WEB SITES FOR LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Practical Techniques for Teaching Culture in the EFL Classroom
Brian Cullen
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Techniques/Cullen-Culture.html
(Teaching Culture: Beyond Language by Deborah Peck
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1984/3/84.03.06.x.html)
activities
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/guides/looking/contents.html#grade35
Culture Learning in Language Education: A Review of the Literature
Michael Paige, Helen Jorstad, Laura Siaya, Francine Klein, Jeanette Colby
http://carla.acad.umn.edu/IS-litreview/litreview.html

A PRAGMATIC INQUIRY/LANGUAGE N CULTURE

A PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO INTERCULTURAL INQUIRY
TERMS
1. Pragmatic: concerned with practical results or values rather than thought or theory.

2. Intercultural: pertaining to or taking place between two or more cultures.

3. Inquiry: an investigation, as into an incident


PRAGMATIC ETHNOGRAPHY
WHY ANTHROPOLOGY?
WHY TEACHERS?
CULTURE LEARNING, ANYONE?
ETHNOGRAPHY AS CULTURAL DESCRIPTION
CONTRASTING FRAMES OF REFERENCE
MAKING EDUCATED CULTURAL GUESSES


8. PREPARING TO ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS
9. STEPS IN PRAGMATIC ETHNOGRAPHY
9.1 CHOOSING A TARGET GROUP
9.2 CHOOSING INFORMANTS
9.3 PROVIDING A FOUNDATION FOR INQUIRY
9.4 INFORMANT INTERVIEWING
9.5 ANALYZING DATA AND FORMING CULTURAL HYPOTHESES
9.6 LOOKING IN THE MIRROR
9.7 PUTTING THEORY AND KNOWLEDGE TO WORK