Mar 27 2009
embedding culture
Yes, I will try to teach culture. I’ll do my best because after all: culture is why we study foreign languages in the first place, right? We were charmed by the culture and never lost our taste for it. We yearn for it still.
But I can’t simply tell the story of culture and expect students to understand. They have to experience it themselves. It’s so hard to remember that.
I think we must include it at every turn. And be sneaky about it.
Embed it in the curriculum. Without any intro.
Explanation and elaboration can come later. But only after the fact.