Culture Bound: Bridging the Cultural gap in Language Teaching

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book is designed to give language teachers a basis for introducing a cultural component into their teaching. The paperback edition is a collection of selected essays that attempts to provide language teachers with a basis for introducing a cultural component into their teaching. It includes essays written especially for the volume, as well as some that have been previously published.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface
• Part I Language, Thought, and Culture
• 1 Language and thought
• 2 Culture and the written language
• 3 Acculturation and mind
• 4 Learning a second culture
• Part II Cultural Differences and Similarities
• 5 How to compare two cultures
• 6 Kinesics and cross-cultural understanding
• 7 Intercultural differences and communicative approaches to foreign-language teaching in the Third World
• 8 ' ... So near the United States'
• 9 Cultural clues to the Middle Eastern student
• 10 XANADU - 'A miracle of rare device': the teaching of English in China
• 11 Compliments in cross-cultural perspective
• Part III Classroom Applications
• 12 Culture in the classroom
• 13 Newspapers: vehicles for teaching ESOL with a cultural focus
• 14 Culture in literature
• 15 English language teaching from an intercultural perspective
• 16 An argument for culture analysis in the second language classroom
• 17 Culture bump and beyond
• 18 The culture test
• Bibliography
• Index