Teaching Culture - Einzelansicht

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Teaching Culture and History in the EFL classroom

This seminar will deal with relevant issues in teaching culture and history in the EFL classroom. Language teachers can be seen as cultural mediators who support their learners’ cultural competences, who enable them to communicate across cultures and who develop their learners’ competences to engage and participate in cultural discourses.

We will collaborate with a group of history teacher candidates at SUNY Cortland (N.Y.) and exchange views on teaching relevant topics of US history in the EFL classroom. Students from Cortland will present their critical analyses of textbook materials and engage with us in discussions on how to develop adolescents’ critical literacies – both in the history and the EFL classroom.

The student conference will be used as a starting point for our critical reflections on how to teach culture and history in the EFL classroom and how teaching materials need to be (re-)designed in order to support our learners’ critical literacy.

Please note: Participation in the student conference on April 23, 7-9 p.m. is obligatory for the successful participation in this course.