PROMOTING UNDERSTANDING ACROSS CULTURES IN THE EFL CLASSROOM THROUGH CALL

LANGUAGE AND CULTURECLAUDIO FLEURY

LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

• Why culture is important• Tools to raise students’ awareness of different

cultures• Why pronunciation is important• Tools to help students improve pronunciation

THE FIFTH ELEMENT

LISTENINGSPEAKINGREADINGWRITING

CULTURE

TEACHING CULTURE

ABILITY TO ACCEPT SOCIAL DIFFERENCES

ABILITY TO PERCEIVE AND RECOGNIZE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

ABILITY TO APPRECIATE AND VALUE SOCIAL DIFFERENCES

WHEN IN ROME ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

SOCIAL BLUNDERSEMBARRASSMENT

CULTURE 1 AND CULTURE 2

HOW TO TRANSFER C1 TO C2?COMPARE AND REFLECT

CRITICAL THINKINGWHAT IS SIMILAR?WHAT IS DIFFERENT?WHAT DO YOU THINK?WHAT IS YOUR OPINION?

DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES

DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES

DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES

DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES

PRONUNCIATIONWhy is pronunciation important?

MISCOMMUNICATION

PRONUNCIATION

How to perceive pronunciation differences?

soundcomparisons.com

HELPING STUDENTS

How to say it better?

LINKS AND REFERENCES• Culture - Foreign Language Teaching Methods - http://coerll.utexas.edu/methods/modules/culture/• Sound Comparisons - http://soundcomparisons.com/• World-English - Listen to English Accents from Around the world -

http://www.world-english.org/listen_english_accents.htm• The speech accent archive - http://accent.gmu.edu/• Regional accents of English - Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_accents_of_English• Vowels and Consonants - Peter Ladefoged -

http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/vowels/contents.html• The differences between English and Portuguese - http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/langdiff/portuguese.htm• Second Life - http://secondlife.com/• Google Earth - http://www.google.com/earth/index.html• Voicethread - http://voicethread.com/• Voxopop - http://www.voxopop.com/• Pronuncian - http://www.pronuncian.com/• The International Phonetic Association - http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/index.html• Minimal Pair Practice and Quiz - http://www.manythings.org/mp/m08.html• Minimal Pairs - Index of common mistakes - http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/l1all.html• Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/?lang=pt• Podomatic - http://www.podomatic.com/login

THANK YOU

LANGUAGE AND CULTURECLAUDIO FLEURY

claudio.fleury@gmail.comeflpresentations.pbworks.com