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Culture
Essential Question
• How does culture matter in academic language
acquisition?
Cultural Discourse Patterns
• Robert Kaplan• James Gee
(African American pattern)
Discourse Patterns: Asian
What do you see?
Discourse Patterns: Latin/Romance
Discourse Patterns: Russian
Discourse Patterns: Arab/Semitic
African American Pattern
Discourse Patterns: British and American
Language, Perception and Neural-pathways
Language “Studies have found effects on how people perceive:EventsPhysical realitySequence EmotionsMental statesRisk takingAnd How we make choicesLara Boroditsky from the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
So What?
Embodied Cognition
• In philosophy, embodied cognition holds that an agent's cognition is strongly influenced by aspects of an agent's body beyond the brain itself.
Examples
• We use hand gestures while on the phone.• Test subjects leaned backward slightly while
recalling past evens and forwards for thoughts of the future.
• Test subjects take longer to recall a dentist experience while standing tall than while laying down on a couch.