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
- Professional Organizations
- Bibliography for Intercultural Studies
- Journals & Other Periodicals
- Websites
- Culture Learning Simulations & Exercises
- Culture Learning Films & 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 entitled Culture 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 in Culture as the Core: Perspective on Culture in Second Language Education published 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 Culture as the Core: Perspectives on Culture in Second Language Education published by Information Age Publishing in 2003.)
CARLA bibliography
More information about additional presentations and publications
on Culture and Language Learning is available from the CARLA bibliography.
