Course: Language and Culture

ONLINE DISCUSSIONS WITH INVITED GUEST SPEAKERS

Schedule of Meetings, click here

Topic: Change in Gender Roles. Students' Projects, click here.

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TUESDAY AND FRIDAY CLASS 

WEDNESDAY CLASS  

Level: 4th year, YE4A

Class meetings: Tuesday and Friday

Instructor: Aiden Yeh

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Required Textbook: The Multicultural Workshop, Book 3 by Linda Lonon Blanton & Linda Lee, 1995, US: Heinle. You can get a copy at Li Shu Fang (07) 359-8423

Supplementary Materials: (Other textbooks that I'll be using)

Language and Culture by Claire Kramsch, 2001, Oxford

Culturally Speaking, 2nd Ed. by Genzel and Cummings, 1994, Heinle

Ideas and Issues Advanced, Martin Hunt, 2000, Chancerel Cultural Exchange,

CrossRoads, USA: Discovering American Culture and Language with the Daily Newspaper, Robert Hughes, Chicago Tribune.

Encountering Cultures in a Chnaging World, 2nd ed, Richard Holeton, 1995, Blaire Press

People Like Us, too: Exploring Cultural values and attitudes, Simon Greenall, 2004, Macmillan

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Course Objectives

1. To explore cultural issues with critical reading and writing, and transfer these skills to speaking skills.
2. To facilitate a critical thinking approach that emphasizes interactions across boundaries based on ethnicity, national origin, language communities, social class, gender, sexual orientation, and other cultural identities.
3. Students are encouraged to make connections and comparisons between the issues being discussed and their own experience and communities.
4. To explore moral dimensions behind fundamental global issues.

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Course Description

This course is designed for intermediate to low advanced EFL [English as a Foreign Language] students. The pedagogy takes the form of classroom activities in which students discuss, read, and write together within a thematic context. The students enrolled in this class are expected to acquire an eagerness to participate in their own learning; increase their awareness of their individual responsibility in the communication process, and most importantly, to understand the essential role of their own insights and experience in responding to culturally diversed issues.

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Grading System and Policies

We will follow the school's grading policy.

Notes:

Avoid tardiness, arrive in class on time and submit your assignments on time.
Late assignments won't be accepted.
We will follow the school's guidelines on absences. The teacher has the right to fail you if you have 6 [or more] absences.
Avoid plagiarism. Do not copy other people's work. Use your references and other sources responsibly.

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Syllabus

Please click here to download the syllabus [ in .doc file]

18 Weeks

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Courses for SY 2004-2005

Language and Culture

Academic Writing

Public Speaking

Wen Tzao Ursuline College of Languages

School Website: http://www.wtuc.edu.tw/2004/index.asp

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 Contact: aidenyeh@yahoo.com

Created: 9/7/ 2004

Updated: 9/8/2004

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