Stage 3 guidelines for speaking: Cultural framework

Here are some cultural framework objectives for Stage 3 for speaking:

• To investigate important life passages people go through at different stages of their lives

• To continue investigating the structure of society and how this affects the way they speak to each other in the day to day social situations.

  Continue to investigate how people relate to each other on the basis of their place in the society and learn the vocabulary associated with such situations.

• To investigate beliefs and values that motivate people to act in a certain way
• To find out symbols important in the society and how these are reflected in their arts and literature
• To use the knowledge you gain in these areas you are accepted and generally fit in with the culture and society.

Here are some cultural framework strategies for Stage 3 guidelines for speaking:

• Review

  Review insights gained through listening and reading and incorporate them into your speech. Correctly use local specific terminology rather than broad statements of description.

• Analysis

  Analyze social situations of everyday life and how people act in them. Identify typical scripts. Identify variations of scripts based on differences in social relationships among participants.

• Indirect questioning

  Find ways to ask indirect questions to gain insight into the way people think and feel.

• Practice

  Use role-play techniques to appropriately apply your insights into social relationships and scripts.

• Hypothesis testing

  When you form a hypothesis about an important aspect of the social structure and how it is reflected in the behavior, check it out with a friend or language associate (LA).

Here are some cultural framework techniques for Stage 3 guidelines for speaking:

• The Dialogue techniques
• The Script Analysis technique
• The Interview techniques, especially The Life History Interview technique
• The Role-Play technique

Here are some cultural framework activities for Stage 3 guidelines for speaking:

• The Join in the Work activity
• The Social Visiting activity
• The Town Survey activity

• Sociocultural themes: Environment
• Sociocultural themes: Daily life
• Sociocultural themes: Social relations
• Sociocultural themes: Values and beliefs

Sociocultural themes: Arts and entertainment

Sociocultural themes: Life cycle passages

• Generic module: Stage 3 guidelines for speaking: Cultural framewor...
• In overview module: Stage 3: Speaking 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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