Raising cultural awareness in teaching English as foreign language

1. RAISING CULTURAL
AWARENESS
Group 4:
1. Nana Apriliana
2. Primadina Cahyati
3. Astri Olivia
ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, GRADUATED SCHOOL,
YOGYAKARTA STATE UNIVERSITY

2. OUTLINE
 Introduction
 Cultural Understanding
 Critical Cultural Awareness/
Consciousness
 Microstrategies for Rising Cultural
Awareness/ Consciousness
 Exploratory Project
 Reference

3. CULTURE
A small “c”
Culture personal construct
patterns of behavior, values, and beliefs
that guide the everyday life of an
individual or a group of individuals within
a cultural community
A big “C”
Culture societal construct (societal
endeavors)
theater, dance, music, literature, and art

4. HISTORICALLY
L2 learning and
teaching
A big “C”
“Hidden Curriculum”
(Micheal Byram (1989)

5. H.H. Stein (1992)
Culture
Teaching
Cognitive
Component
Affective
component
Behavioral
component

6. Stein (1992)
• “One of the important aims
of culture teaching is to help
the learner gain an
understanding of the native
speaker's perspective”(p.
216).

7. Limited View of Culture
• Culture narrowly associates cultural
identity with national identity or linguistic
identity.
• Ignores diversity of world views that
learners bring to the classroom

8. CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING
human beings interpret their cross-cultural experiences,
and how they construct meaning in cross-cultural
encounters
Different View
Recent exploration by L2 educationist

9. Robinson (1985)
“cultural versatility”
“expanding one’s
repertoire of experiences
and behaviors, not
subtracting anything”
Robinson (1991)
Theory of L2 acquisition:
Color Purple
One’s own cultural lens = Blue
+
Different person cultural lens = Red
=
purple
Kramsch (1993)
“Third Culture”
conceptual space that
recognizes the L2
classroom as the site of
intersection of multiple
worlds of discourse.

10. a true understanding of
dynamic of the classroom
can emerge only through
Critical Cultural
Consciousness

11. CRITICAL CULTURAL
CONSCIOUSNESS
Understanding the cultural
dynamics of the L2
classroom
Requiring the recognition of
a simple truth
What is the global reality
today?
What drives both economic
and cultural globalization?
Economic
globalization
Cultural
globalization
Global
electronic
communication
Disappearing
borders
Shrinking
time
Shrinking
space
Internet

12. CONTINUE.......
What the individual needs to
make proper use of that
resource?
What guides to this reflection?
Learning other culture is not
only expands cultural horizon
but also clarifies and solidifies
one cultural heritage.
There are two main function of
Critical Consciousness
A critically
reflective mind
Individual value
of their own
cultural heritage
Renewal
Change

13. TEACHERS AND LEARNERS
AS CULTURAL INFORMANTS
How we treat
the learner as
a cultural
informant: give
chance, and
share
Two
possibilities
when the
learners as an
informant: what
they have, and
what they know
What will
happen about
raising cultural
consciousness
in the L2
classroom?

14. MICROSTRATEGIES FOR RISING CULTURAL
AWARENESS/ CONSCIOUSNESS
 Microstrategy 12.1: Cultural Profile
 Microstrategy 12.2: Thanksgiving
 Microstrategy 12.3: Hero and Hero-Worship

15. EXPLORATORY PROJECT
 Project 12.1: Happy New Year
 Project 12.2: Culture and Airplane Crashes

16. REFERENCE
 Kumaravadivelu, B. 2003. Beyond methods:
Microstrategies fro language teaching. New Haven
& london: Yale University Press.