Rethinking culture teaching Going global at the age of ICT

DIHI Mohamed

Mohammed I UniversityFaculty of Letters and Humanities, Oujda

in ELT contexts

Language and culture: Two sides of the same coin

Culture at the age of ICT: The four Cs

Cultural awareness : The text and the context

There are three principles on which human life flourishes:

1. Diversity2. Curiosity

3. Creativity Ken Robinson, How to escape education's death valley, May 2013

Teaching

Critical and creative

thinking

Diversity

Language and culture Can we teach them separately?

Two sides of the same coin

Product of socially and historically situated discourse

Shaped by language

Languages are culturally

Explicit focus on culture

Culture is the keystone of languages

DivergenceIs there a third option?

Cultural invasion Cultural neutrality

Diversity

Hybridization

Globalization

CultureThe Four Cs

The language of the world

EnglishLingua franca

Redefine culture

Cultural awareness The text and the context

Learners made aware of members of another cultural group

valuesperspectives expectationsbehavior

Understand the reasons for the actions and beliefs of the other

Shift

Examine cultural productspatterns of everyday life and cultural behavior

• Promoting the Concept of Cultural Awareness as a Curricular Objective in an ESL/EFL

• Developing intercultural and cross-cultural skills

• Developing unbiased attitudes towards the own culture and the cultures they learn about.

• Conceiving new national curriculum in which diversity is recognized as the basis of school life.

• Enriching the EFL curriculum with fine arts and humanities

Thank you very much