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- Title
Culture Portfolios Revisited: Feedback from Students and Instructors.
- Authors
Abrams, Zsuzsanna I.; Byrd, David R.; Boovy, Bradley; Möhring, Anja
- Abstract
Teaching culture in the foreign language (12) classroom can be a real dilemma for instructors: What culture do we teach? What does it mean to learn about a culture? How can students learn culture? In order to answer these questions, we evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of two types of culture portfolios: a traditional one that used on-line and printed texts as primary resources, and one thematically organized around an authentic film. Using these portfolios, we sought to answer the specific question of how students and instructors of beginning-level German classes view the culture portfolio projects. Based on the results of a survey of 61 first-year German students and interviews with their instructors, we offer several suggestions for implementing culture portfolios into the L2 curriculum effectively.
- Subjects
GERMANY; CULTURAL studies; FOREIGN language education; LANGUAGE teachers; STUDENTS; LANGUAGE &; culture
- Publication
Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German, 2006, Vol 39, Issue 1/2, p80
- ISSN
0042-062X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1756-1221.2006.tb00018.x