Reflecting on Incorporating Culture into Language Teaching: A Personal Approach, Apuntes de Idiomas

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TDI FUNDAMENTALS

BLENDED COURSE

ICPNA CUSCO

ASSIGNMENTS

LESSON III

ARAGON, SCARLETT

Peru – 2021

Writing Assignment 3

WRITING ASSIGNMENT 3

CHOOSE ONE OF THESE ASSIGNMENTS AND FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS. THEN

TYPE IN AND SUBMIT YOUR RESULTS BELOW.

1. Reflect: Reflect on how you incorporate culture into your own language teaching. Use these questions to write a journal entry.
   • Think about the content of your lessons. How much of your classes are devoted to what you would consider language (structures, functions, vocabulary, skills)?
   • How much of your classes are devoted to L2 culture specifically, or how culture is evident in language use?
   • What do you feel is an appropriate mix of language and culture for your students? Why?
   • What changes would you propose to your current lessons based on this reflection?
2. Discover: Explore English language textbooks and discover how elements of communicative competence can be seen in these texts. Write up your findings in a brief report.
   • Choose three different English language textbooks to evaluate.
   • Examine the lessons in these books for evidence of the different areas of communicative competence outlined in this lesson.
   • Describe how these elements were identified in the texts.
   • Compare the texts and describe how much exposure to the different areas of communicative competence that each offers.
   • Write a brief report of your findings.
3. Design: Design a lesson to address one of the aspects communicative competence addressed in this lesson. Write a lesson plan, carry it out, and evaluate its effectiveness.
   • Choose one element of communicative competence you would like to incorporate.
   • Plan a lesson to incorporate this element into the normal lesson you would teach, using the suggestions in this lesson or designing your own.
   • Carry out the lesson, including assessment of the specific element you have included.
   • Evaluate how well it went as well as any adjustments you would make next time.
   • Describe your lesson and evaluation in a brief report.

RESPONSE:

I chose Reflect. I tend to start my classes by asking questions to students about different topics, just so they can start opening themselves and not feeling that everything will be scored and that they need to do it for points. So, we focus more on vocabulary, and of course they are going to use grammar but I try to make corrections by repeating them saying the correct form. To introduce culture, I like to ask questions about things they may have heard in the news. I also practice a lot of pronunciation because even though at the end of the day everybody speaks English but with different pronunciation. But for me is very important that students don’t copy one kind of pronunciation or accent, but they have to be understood. By this, I mean that when students mispronounce some words, they may lose the attention or even the interest of the other