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Language and culture in the FLC A dilemma for
teacher development
Gloria Gil UFSC
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• In what ways does the language-culture
  relationship influence the education of FL
• teachers?

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GENERAL ASPECTS
1.How can the relationship between language and
culture be defined? 2. What is culture? 3. What
kinds of culture can be mentioned? 4. What
aspects related to language studies today are
directly connected with culture?
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RELATION LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

• Communicative competence and culture
• Some aspects of the culture/language relation
  investigated
• Modals/grammatical elements, theme/rheme,
• Use of pronouns (systemic functional linguistics)
• 2. Politeness, requests, silence, feedback
  (sociolinguistics)

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CONCEPTS RELATED TO LANGUAGE- CULTURE
LINGUISTICS TODAY TEXT CONTEXT DISCOURSE TEXT
UAL GENRES
CRITICAL LINGUISTICS IDENTITY GENRE IDEOLOGY
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• SOME DEFINITIONS of CULTURE
• A culture is a way of life of a group of people
  -the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that
  they accept, generally without thinking about
  them, and that are passed along by communication
  from one generation to the next.

ENR (2003). Culture shock challenges firms
looking abroad. Vol. 250, No. 23. New York
McGraw Hill.
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• Systems or codes of meaning that give sense to
  our social actions allowing us to interpret
  meaningfully other peoples actions.
• HALL, S. The centrality of culture notes on the
  cultural revolutions of our time. In. THOMPSON,
  Kenneth (ed.). Media and cultural
  regulation. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi The
  Open University SAGE Publications, 1997. ( Cap.
  5)

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• Culture can be seen as
• as unifying aspects
• as opposing aspects
• (WALLERSTEIN, I. 1990)

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• Types of culture
• Brazilian culture
• English culture
• American culture
• Teen-agers culture
• Middle-class culture
• Foreign language classroom culture

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Teaching foreign languages and the
language-culture relationship Do you agree with
the following statements?
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• It is more important to take into account the
  culture of the students than the culture of the
  target language.
• The culture of the target language should always
  be taught in the FLC.

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What does culture in those statements mean?
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Knowledge about the target culture
Rules of interaction / issues of politeness and
directness
culture
How values and beliefs influence
interpretations of behaviour
Connotations of words/ Expressions / proverbs
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• WHOSE CULTURE?

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BRITISH?
ANGLO-AMERICAN?
BRAZILIAN contextualized
ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES?
GLOBAL?
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ENGLISH AS LINGUA FRANCA ENGLISH AS
INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE
What culture corresponds to this?
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Another global issueInternet culture
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• The culture dilemma

• The native-speaker dilemma

• The standard-language dilemma

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Kramschs reconciling proposal

• The foreign language classroom is the space of a
  third culture, a hybrid space, that combines the
  culture of the language being taught and the
  social characteristics of the learners
  environment (1994).

INTERCULTURAL APPROACH
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ONE MAIN DILEMMA

• ARE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
• IN BRAZIL AWARE AND READY TO
• DEAL WITH THE COMPLEXITIES OF
• LANGUAGE-CULTURE RELATIONS
• INSIDE THE CLASSROOM?

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The diversity of realities of English teachers in
Brazil is enormous
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Three main contexts where the relationship can be
found

• Teaching language-culture in teacher education
  programs at the university

• Teaching language-culture in regular schools

• Teaching language-culture in language schools

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What has been actually investigated about the
language/culture binomial in Brazil?

• Several Brazilian authors have written
  theoretical accounts about this issue, for
  example, Gimenez, 2003 Ferreira, 2000 Oliveira,
  2000 Monte Mor, 2002 Garcez, 1998 Serrani,
  2005, Rajagopalan, 2001, 2005.
• Few empirical studies on the issue Moita Lopes,
  1996 Ferreira, 2000 Sarmento, 2004Grigoletto,
  2001.

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? CULTURE CONTENT Feelings about the importance
of teaching culture and what kinds of culture are
taught if any
?LANGUAGE CULTURE The use of contrastive
constructs between the students native and
target languages (proverbs, idiomatic
expressions, words)
? PUBLISHED MATERIALS Perceptions about culture
in textbooks
? CULTURE PERCEPTIONS Teachers perceptions of
own and target language cultures (Moita Lopes,
1996 Ferreira, 2000)
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Proposed topics of investigation universities
and school-university links

• Does culture play a role in the Curriculum of
  the Letras-Inglês Licenciaturas?

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• What are student teachers cultural beliefs,
  representations, identities?

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• Can we find and investigate successful school or
  academic experiences that include the cultural
  component?

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• How do informal and formal learning of cultural
  aspects influence the education of the
  student-teachers?

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• How does the culture and language relationship
  in the internet era affect foreign language
  teacher education?

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• Are there new cultural forms of communicating?
  What are the roles of these new communities in
  teacher education?

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• In what ways does the language-culture
  relationship influence the education of FL
• teachers?

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• WELL ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIP OF THE BINOMIAL

• VAGUENESS OF WHAT CULTURE MEANS AND HOW TO DEAL
  WITH THE CULTURE SIDE OF THE BINOMIAL

• MORE DEBATE IS NEEDED ABOUT THE NATIVE SPEAKER
  AND THE STANDARD LANGUAGE DILEMMAS

• THE INTERCULTURAL APPROACH APPEARS AS A NEW WAY
  TO LOOK AT THOSE ISSUES

• MORE EMPIRICAL STUDIES ON TEACHER, STUDENT
  TEACHERS AND THE ENGLISH CLASSROOM RELATED TO THE
  BINOMIAL ARE NEEDED.

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Los lenguajes del mundoAlfredo Zitarroza
Qué mala suerte tienen los que quisieran que el
hombre por lenguaje se dividiera. Cuando el
hombre comprende sus intereses el planeta se
achica y su idioma crece. Nadie me diga que en
tanto viaje tuve problemas con mi mensaje. Los
pueblos más lejanos en el paisaje sueñan, viven
y luchan en mi lenguaje. Qué mala suerte tienen
los que quisieran que los pueblos del mundo no
se entendieran. Cuando el hombre comprende sus
intereses el planeta se achica y su idioma
crece. Bravos lingüistas del diccionario vayan
buscando vocabulario que ha de llegar el día, si
es necesario en que se hable un lenguaje
interplanetario.