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Parlindungan Pardede

Universitas Kristen Indonesia Jakarta

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WHAT IS CULTURE?

o The blue print or integrated patterns of abstraction derived from observable behavior of a group of people.

o Culture is the acquired knowledge people useto interpret experience and generate behavior.

o Hofstede : culture is the software of the mind(mind= hardware= human brain)

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Categories of Cultures

Culture consists of

three interrelatedcategories, i.e.products, ideas,

and behaviors.

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ELEMENTS OF CULTURE

A Culture consists of VISIBLE elements (i.e. the achievement orproduct of people as reflected in their history, socialinstitutions, music, architecture, literature) and INVISIBLEelements (i.e. the culturally influenced beliefs and perceptions,as expressed through language and behaviors, that affectacceptability in the host community).

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CATEGORIES OF CULTURE(2))

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LAYERS OF CULTURE

People even within the same culture carry severallayers of mental programming within themselves.Different layers of culture exist at the followinglevels:

The national level: Associated with thenation as a whole.The regional level: Associated with ethnic,linguistic, or religious differences that existwithin a nation.Global Culture: Associated with theuniversal habits, norms, and ways of lifethough they are manifested in a bitdifferent way.The gender level: Associated with genderdifferences (female vs. male)

The generation level: Associated with thedifferences between grandparents andparents, parents and children.The social class level: Associated witheducational opportunities and differencesin occupation.The corporate level: Associated with theparticular culture of an organization.Applicable to those who are employed

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Culture is an Adaptive MechanismCulture is learned

Cultures ChangePeople are Usually not Aware of Their CultureWe Do Not Know All of Our Own CultureCulture Gives Us a Range of Permissible

Behavior PatternsCultures No Longer Exist in Isolation

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SAMPLES OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

Look at the following pictures!

Where do you think these people are from? Whatare the differences in the ways they greet eachother?

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Where do these people come from?

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Where are these buildings located?

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THE ROLE OF CULTURAL TEACHINGIN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAM

IN COMMUNICATING THROUGH LANGUAGE, PEOPLEINVOLVE BOTH LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE &PERCEPTION, IDEA, GESTURE & OTHER THINGS

SHAPED BY THEIR CULTURE

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OBJECTIVES OF CULTURAL TEACHING

TO ENABLE THE LEARNERS TO EXPLAINASPECTS OF A SPECIFIC CULTURE

TO DEVELOP CULTURAL AWARENESS ASPART OF THE LEARNERS PERSONAL

GROWTH AND EXPERIENCE

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GOALS OF CCU

TO UNDERSTAND SOME BASIC ASPECTS OFAMERICAN CULTURE, INCLUDING:

BASIC FEATURE OF AMERICAN PEOPLE

AN OUTLINE OF THE US HISTORYFAMILY VALUESSOCIAL RELATIONSHIPEDUCATIONAL VALUES

WORK VALUESRELIGIONS IN AMERICAAMERICAN GOVERNMENTCOMMON CHARACTER OF AMERICANS

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LANGUAGE & CULTUREINTERRELATIONSHIP

LANGUAGE IS A PART OF A CULTURE AND A CULTURE IS A PART OF A LANGUAGE.

THUS, CULTURAL INSTRUCTION IS VERY CRUCIAL IN A SECOND/FOREIGNLANGUAGE LEARNING/TEACHING PROGRAM.

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TWO BARRIERS IN STUDYING CULTURESETHNOCENTRISM: the belief that onesown culture is the best and that his

interpretation of the world of reality is themost reliable and truthful the principleof cultural relativity

STREOTYPES: an over generalized andsometimes distorted description of groupsof people Know more about them

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THE END

CREATED BY:

PARLIN PARDEDE

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF FKIP UKI

JAKARTA

2010

THANK YOU