Anna Niegorodcew English Department Jagiellonian University,
Krakw, Poland
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Institute of Foreign Languages, Vilnius University 13th July
2010 TUESDAY 11:00-12:30 Examples of diploma projects linking ELT
and the target culture Teaching English as a language of
international communication (ELF) and culture (whose culture?) some
thoughts Using English to familiarize speakers of other languages
with ones own and other cultures: examples from everyday life (
Texts and tasks from Mirrors and windows)
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Institute of Foreign Languages, Vilnius University 14th July
2010 Wednesday 11:00-12:30 Using English to familiarize speakers of
other languages with ones own and other cultures: examples from
literature a) Czesaw Mioszs poetry b) Yuri Andrukhovychs prose
Summing up - English language teaching training via culture
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Two motives in dissociating English from the target culture: 1.
The actual mobility of large numbers of people 2. The impact of
minorities and immigrants
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We should teach ELF users culture. L1 (and L2, L3 etc.) culture
can be understood through ELF in a similar way translations are
understood.
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European teachers are generally positively disposed towards
teaching culture. However, they claim that they do not have enough
time to do it in class. If they teach culture, it is exclusively
the target language culture. Teachers focus both on everyday life
styles and on high culture.
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( Texts and tasks from Mirrors and windows) a) Approaches of
different cultures to time (pp.13- 14: Going round the bend in
Greece) b) Approaches to eating and drinking in different cultures
(pp.20-21: What time is lunch?) c) Conversation topics in different
cultures (pp.29- 30) d) Different approaches to education (pp.71-73
Taking a test in Hungary)
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Czesaw Miosz (born 30 June 1911 in Szetejnie Lithuania; died 14
August 2004 in Krakw, Poland) Polish poet, novelist, essayist,
historian of literature, translator, in the years 1951- 1989 in
exile, to 1960 in France, then in the United States, in Poland to
1980 encased in censorship; the Nobel Prize in Literature (1980),
Professor, University of California at Berkeley and Harvard
University, in 1993 he returned to Poland and lived in Krakw;
Knight of the Order of White Eagle, buried in the Crypt of Merit Na
Skace in Krakw.
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Yuri Andrukhovych (born in 1960 in the city of Stanislav now
called Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine). One of the best contemporary
Ukrainian authors. He writes prose, poetry, plays, and essays, and
translates literary works. In 2001, he received the Herder Prize
and the Antonovych Prize in literature. His works have been
translated into many languages, among them English, French, German,
Italian, Polish and Russian.
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English language is in the process of dissociation from its
target culture (British and/or American), and is encompassing
different cultures, through its use by multicultural non-native ELF
speakers. ELF can be used to familiarize speakers of other
languages with ones own culture. In this function ELF mediates
between different cultures and English language teachers should be
aware of their roles as cultural mediators.