Resources for Teachers
What is Culture?
The definition of ‘culture’ used for the purposes of CARLA’s Culture and Language Learning initiatives is given, along with a collection of other definitions of culture used by researchers in a variety of disciplines.
Resources
CARLA's Culture and Language Learning project staff have gathered up a wide range of resources for language teachers who are looking at ways to integrate culture and language instruction.- Academic Programs for Intercultural Studies
- 专业组织
- Bibliography for Intercultural Studies
- Journals & Other Periodicals
- Websites
- Culture Learning Simulations & Exercises
- 文化学习的电影& Videos
- Recommended Literature with Intercultural Themes
CARLA Publications on Culture and Language Learning
Maximizing Study Abroad: Strategies for Language and Culture Learning and Use
This new series of guidebooks helps students, program professionals, and language instructors make the most of study abroad opportunities. Practical and user-friendly, each guide speaks to a particular audience in helping students identify and use a wide variety of language- and culture-learning strategies.
Culture Learning in Language Education: A Review of the Literature
This paper examines the theoretical and research literatures pertaining to culture learning in language education programs. Written by R. Michael Paige, Helen Jorstad, Laura Siaya, Francine Klein, Jeanette Colby it was originally published in 1999 as a chapter in the CARLA working paper entitledCulture as the Core: Integrating Culture into the Language Curriculum.Download this paper(PDF).
Culture as the Core: Perspective on Culture Teaching and Learning in the Second Language Curriculum
This collection of papers focuses on the important issue of integrating culture into the second language classroom. Seven of the papers were originally presented at a symposium held in 1991, which examined culture and language issues from an interdisciplinary perspective. The final chapter is a reflection on the 1991 symposium and the follow-up conference held by CARLA in 1994.
(Originally published in as CARLA Working Paper #11 in 1998. Selected papers were revised for inclusion inCulture as the Core: Perspective on Culture in Second Language Educationpublished by Information Age Publishing in 2003.)
Culture as the Core: Integrating Culture into the Language Curriculum
This volume examined theory, research, and practice related to culture learning in the second language classroom and is based on the conference "Culture as the Core: Transforming the Language Curriculum" sponsored by CARLA in May 1996.
(Originally published in as CARLA Working Paper #15 in 1999. Selected papers were revised for inclusion in核心文化:文化视角cond Language Educationpublished by Information Age Publishing in 2003.)