It is now argued that a very close relationship exists between culture and learning /teaching‚ and that learners can learn better if the way of their learning corresponds to the cultural features of their society. Taking this argument into account‚ many linguists‚ teachers and researchers now suggest that language teaching-learning practices in the classroom should be based on learners’ culture. They argue that if there is a harmony between the mode of teaching-learning activities in the classroom
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Euphemism: Reflection of Cultures Introduction Euphemism is “example of the use of pleasant‚ mild or indirect words‚ or phrases in place of more accurate or direct ones” (Oxford for Advanced Learner’s English-Chinese dictionary page 491). It is also defined as “a kind of expressing method which aims at making people feel less embarrassed by using some words with vague and ambiguous meaning instead of those which may make people feel unpleasant and not respected” in Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
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Language is a crucial unit that constitutes and builds a nation’s culture and so identity‚ it is not a mere tool that serves to communicate one’s needs in a social order; but rather a complex system of signs that embraces the whole cultural frame of a certain community. Our identities emerge from our cultural transactions and interchanges‚ and these latter cannot be possible without the mediation of a communicative system i.e. language. Language operates in order to construct meanings and understandings
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Compare the generic characteristics of counseling with respect to culture‚ class‚ and language‚ with Native American characteristics in terms of culture‚ class‚ and language. Which characteristics most closely reflect your culture‚ class‚ and language? Of the Native American characteristics there are not very many that closely reflect my German culture at all. The Native American people have a holistic view on life‚ keep to oneself‚ rely heavily on extended family‚ not competitive and often very
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موسوی نورائی غفاری روش فر گروه های زبان انگلیسی کلای سوم 2 دبیرستان علویه Teacher : S . H . Sadat Culture in Second Language Teaching Elizabeth Peterson and Bronwyn Coltrane‚ Center for Applied Linguistics The National Center for Cultural Competence defines culture as an “integrated pattern of human behavior that includes thoughts‚ communications‚ languages‚ practices‚ beliefs‚ values‚ customs‚ courtesies‚ rituals‚ manners of interacting and roles‚ relationships and expected
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Language‚ Gender‚ and Culture Essay In our world there are so people that are being overrated‚ from their skin color‚ to how they talk or to where they came from or the way they walk‚ everything from what people wear to where people come from and their ethnic background. These people are looked down on from the rest of society for just being themselves and doing only what they know to do. For some‚ it’s wrong if others do not act just like them and they put them down for it. Stereotypes can be
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12.IB Does language shape culture? Most questions of whether and how language shapes thought start with the simple observation that languages differ from one another. And a lot! Just look at the way people talk‚ they might say. Certainly‚ speakers of different languages must attend to strikingly different aspects of the world just so they can use their language properly. The word order can be completely different among languages. And also there are tenses in some languages that we do not
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11192014 Language‚ Gender and Culture Power relates to language‚ gender‚ and culture. Power is shown through the way we speak to others‚ the way different genders relate to each other‚ and the way are raised within our cultures. The use of language‚ gender‚ and culture is used in various ways that allows us to communicate with society in representation of who we are and what we stand for. Although it isn’t shown in the same way‚ power relates to language‚ gender and culture because it involves
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Intercultural Communication Studies XVII: 2 2008 War and Peace of Languages and Cultures? Svetlana Ter-Minasova‚ Moscow State University Ter-Minasova The future of mankind depends largely on its ability to communicate. Technical progress provides mankind with an ever-increasing variety of more and more powerful devices and forms of communication: tele-conferences‚ multi-media bridges‚ His or Her Majesty – the Internet! However‚ “the human factor” presents a number of problems hampering
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hwsy@overseaen.com 2011 2 http://www.overseaen.com Tel:+86-551-5690811 5690812 The Importance of Body Language in Cultures ， （ ， ， 262700 ） Abstract:Communication is necessary to people’s daily life. Although we may not realize it when we talk with others‚ we make ourselves understood not only by words. Body language sometimes helps make the communication easy and effective. Body language is treated as equivalent to nonverbal communication which sends 65 percent communication message. In
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