This document discusses a paradigm shift in language teaching from focusing on teaching a language to teaching culture through the tools of its language. It advocates for dialogic teaching that bridges cultures and makes students aware of differences by decentering their own perspectives. The document also differentiates between how cultures perceive themselves, how members perceive their own culture, and how they perceive other cultures.

1. Paradigm shift
from
“I teach a language (and culture if
there is some time left)
To
“I teach culture through the tools of
its language”

2. C. Kramsch
Context and Culture in Language
Teaching (1993)
• Dialogic teaching
• bridges and boundaries
• Teaching along the cultural faultline
• Interculturality [2005]: awareness of difference +
the ability to decenter

3. Dialogic teaching (Kramsch)
Perspectives
[the real] C1 and C2
• C1’ = the perception of self held by members of
the native culture [e. how US students perceive their own American
culture ]
• C1’’ = the representations/constructs of the
target culture that learners carry in their heads
• C2’ = the perception that members of the target
culture have of themselves
• C2” = the perception that members of the target
culture have of others