Part of 2012 EFLIS Primary InterSection Session With CALLIS & ICIS Friday, 30 March 2012 - PROMOTING UNDERSTANDING ACROSS CULTURES IN THE EFL CLASSROOM THROUGH CALL

1. PROMOTING UNDERSTANDING
ACROSS CULTURES IN THE EFL
CLASSROOM THROUGH CALL
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
CLAUDIO FLEURY

2. LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
• Why culture is important
• Tools to raise students’ awareness of different
cultures
• Why pronunciation is important
• Tools to help students improve pronunciation

3. THE FIFTH ELEMENT
LISTENING
SPEAKING
READING
WRITING
CULTURE

4. TEACHING CULTURE
ABILITY TO PERCEIVE
AND RECOGNIZE
CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
ABILITY TO ACCEPT
SOCIAL DIFFERENCES
ABILITY TO APPRECIATE
AND VALUE SOCIAL
DIFFERENCES

5. WHEN IN ROME ...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
SOCIAL BLUNDERS
EMBARRASSMENT

6. CULTURE 1 AND CULTURE 2
HOW TO TRANSFER C1 TO C2?
COMPARE AND REFLECT
CRITICAL THINKING
WHAT IS SIMILAR?
WHAT IS DIFFERENT?
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
WHAT IS YOUR OPINION?

7. DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES

8. DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES

9. DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES

10. DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES

11. PRONUNCIATION
Why is pronunciation important?
MISCOMMUNICATION

12. PRONUNCIATION
How to perceive pronunciation differences?
soundcomparisons.com

13. HELPING STUDENTS
How to say it better?

14. LINKS AND REFERENCES
• Culture - Foreign Language Teaching Methods - http://coerll.utexas.edu/methods/modules/culture/
• Sound Comparisons - http://soundcomparisons.com/
• World-English - Listen to English Accents from Around the world - http://www.world-
english.org/listen_english_accents.htm
• The speech accent archive - http://accent.gmu.edu/
• Regional accents of English - Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_accents_of_English
• Vowels and Consonants - Peter Ladefoged -
http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/vowels/contents.htm
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• The differences between English and Portuguese -
http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/langdiff/portuguese.htm
• Second Life - http://secondlife.com/
• Google Earth - http://www.google.com/earth/index.html
• Voicethread - http://voicethread.com/
• Voxopop - http://www.voxopop.com/
• Pronuncian - http://www.pronuncian.com/
• The International Phonetic Association - http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/index.html
• Minimal Pair Practice and Quiz - http://www.manythings.org/mp/m08.html
• Minimal Pairs - Index of common mistakes - http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/l1all.html
• Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/?lang=pt
• Podomatic - http://www.podomatic.com/login

15. THANK YOU
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
CLAUDIO FLEURY
claudio.fleury@gmail.com
eflpresentations.pbworks.com