86924

Cultural competence (language reflects the culture if its speakers):

implies mastery of the norms of society, the imspoken mles of conduct, values and orientations

ability to recognize the culturally signification facts

7    categories of culture reaching:

1)    the sense of culturally conditioned behavior - people act the way they do, because their society allows them

2)    interaction of language and society (sex, age, social class affect the way people behave and speak)

3)    knowledge how to behave In common situations

4)    knowledge of the cultural connotations of words and phrases

5)    ability to evaluate statements about culture

6)    researching another culture (from library, mass media, personal observation)

7)    development of empathy towards other societies

The learner is reguired to leam 6 aspects of culture;

1)    places (sense of geography)

2)    way of life (thinking, value, living)

3)    society (identifying basie social, professional, economic differences)

4)    liistory

5)    institutions

6)    art, musie, literaturę

8    approaches to teaching culture;

1)    an authentic class environment

2)    providing cultural information (short slices of life)

3)    problem solving activities

4)    behavioral and interactive aspects (role-play in restaurants)

5)    cognitive approach (learning through reading, discussion)

6)    real life exposure to the target culture

7)    the role of literaturę

8)    additional devices and real-world resources

A cultural pattern -cluster of interrelated cultural orientations are madę up of interrelated cultural behaviors wliich are influenced by values that are shared by a cultural group.

Literaturę texts should be used in classes, because of many reasons:

it’s an authentic materiał, not written for the specific purpose of teacliing tlie language it’s culniral environment (characters from many backgroimds, feelings, thoughts) language enrichment

the selection of literaturę depends on group of students (age, level, cultural background)

presentation of literaturę has many typical features: it provides information, explanation and even translation