Cross Culture_Pertemuan 1_Modul 1_Mitha & Ayodya.pptx

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Cross Cultural Understanding

Spring 2013March 2nd, 2014

Module 1 : What is Culture?

Paramitha Mansoer

Universitas Terbuka

Korea Selatan


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MODUL 1 :WHAT IS CULTURE??


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Gurito:

Culture indicates all aspects that members of a group

share together. Children learn ways of doing things, waysof talking, smiling, liking and disliking things. Culture

determines peoples action, their social relationship

and their morality

Dwyer:

Culture is what language learner needs to know in order to

understand the meaning of the message in another language

other than the formal properties of the language code

The Collins Dictionary:

Thetotal of inheritedideas, beliefs, values and knowledge

which constitute the shared bases of social activities.


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Guess where is the picture from?

Culture can be

represents by

traditionaldances or

ceremonies and

also by daily life

activities.


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Mention the cultural differences

between Korean and Indonesianon daily life activities!


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Cultural Value? Cultural Norms?

Value: The importance that

we attached tosomething

Value concerned aboutwhat is good anddesirable and what isbad andundesirable.

Example: Americanshighly valueindependence and selfreliance

Norms: Standard rules that accepted by

the member of community

Divided into folkways (kebiasaan)and mores (adat istiadat).

Folkways are the customs ofcommunity which, when broken,do not have fatal consequences

Mores are concerned with

behaviors of vital importance incommunity and represents thebasic moral value of community

Example: Bigamy is unacceptablein america


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Cultural Value and Norm

Americans

A: How are you?

B: Im fine/Great/Very well

Australians

A: How are you?

B: Not bad/Cant complain

What can you conclude from the two interactions?

Americans

A: Wow, your dress is pretty

B: Thank you

Indonesians

A: Wah, bajunya bagus sekali

B: Ah, ini baju jelek dan murah

kok

What can you conclude from all of them?

There are relations between language and culture


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Language and Culture

In this section, we will learn about relation

between culture and language, as been

described by Edward Sapir, Benjamin Lee

Whorf, Ronald Wardhaugh, Imam Suyitno,

Anna Wierzbicka, and Cliff Goddard.


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Edward Sapir

Language is a symbolic guide to culture. Vocabulary is a

very sensitive index of the culture of people

Sapir described that there is close relationship betweenculture and language and it will be difficult to

understand other peoples culture without having

knowledge of the language and vice versa.


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Benjamin Lee Whorf

There is a connection between cultural norms andlinguistic pattern. The way people see the world is

reflected in the language

Example:

Padi

Beras

Nasi

Rice

Rice

Rice

Indonesian English


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Ronald Wardhaugh

Wardhaugh stated that relation between language and

culture can be seen in kinship (kekeluargaan) system,

color terminology, taboo and euphemism.

Indonesian English

Kinship Pakde, Pakle Uncle

Color terminology ?? Blond

Taboo Prohibitions of behavior believed to be

harmful that it would cause anxiety,

embarrassment, or shame

Euphemism To avoid mentioning certain matters directly


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Imam Suyitno

Bahasa adalah bagian interal dari budaya suatukelompok. Karena itu unsur budaya seperti aturan,

kebiasaan, dan cara hidup kelompok dapat

diekspresikan melalui bahasa.

Question Wouldnt you likemore tea?

Answer Korean: No

Means the offer accepted

France: Mercy

Means the offer declined

Example 1

Question What do you thing about this idea?

Answer American: I dont think

itll works

Javanese: Itu ide yang bagus, tapi

maaf saya kurang setuju

Example 2


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Anna Wierzbicka

There is a close link between life of society and lexicon(kosakata) of the language

According to her, different culture encourages differentattitudes towards emotions and there different

attitudes are reflected in the lexicon and the grammar

of the language associated with the culture.

Example: Javanese word isin


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Cliff Goddard

He studied the relation between culture and

language in particular emotion words.

For example the words amazed and surprised do

not have exact meaning in Indonesian words.


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Culture and Foreign Language Teaching

Why should we consider cultural study in teaching foreignlanguage?

1. Because there is a close relation between culturalstudy and foreign language teaching or learning.Those who study foreign language need to know the

culture of the society in which the language is spokenand so the other way.

Example: see page 1.20

In the last conversation, the American woman mightfeel offended because the dress she thought beautifulis considered ugly by the owner

2. To gasp a better understanding when talking to nativespeakers

Example: see page 1.21. Can you guess the topic of

the conversation?


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In teaching foreign language, we have to

consider the listener culture as well as the

target language culture. When we applied the listener culture with the

foreign language, the text will become un-

natural. Please refer to page 1.22 Many experts believe that authentic materials

such as, newspapers, TV, books, etc should be

introduced to the student. By doing this waythe culture will be transmitted to the language

classroom, though we may not aware of it.


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Read Excerpt 2 page 1.26!

What kind of cultural information youcan get from the text??

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