Stage 2 guidelines for listening: Cultural framework

Here are some cultural framework objectives for Stage 2 when listening:

• To understand basic kinship terms and the obligations and privileges of relatives
• To understand what constitutes friendship and what some obligations of friendship entail
• To understand business relationships and how to conduct basic transactions
• To understand how people perform basic routine activities of everyday life

Here are some cultural framework strategies for Stage 2 guidelines for listening:

• Advance organization

  Read pertinent sections of the Themes for sociocultural exploration so you will know what to look for and pay attention to. (see below)

• Analysis

  Do kinship analysis.

• Practice

  Get and use texts that will help you understand the cultural themes listed above. Use interview techniques.

• Observation

  Always pay attention to what you can learn from the culture through observing and listening.

Here are some cultural framework techniques for Stage 2 guidelines for listening:

• The Interview techniques
• The Audio Archive technique
• The Participant Observation technique
• The Shared Experiences technique
• The Series technique
• The Kinship Analysis technique

Here is a cultural framework activity for Stage 2 guidelines for listening:

Participate in as many community activities as possible.

• Sociocultural themes: Environment
• Sociocultural themes: Daily life
• Sociocultural themes: Social relations

• Generic module: Stage 2 guidelines for listening: Cultural framewo...
• In overview module: Stage 2: Listening modules
• In modular book: Guidelines for a Language and Culture Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In document collection: Other Resources
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

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