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CULTURAL LENSES--Current issues for
TESOLs.November 15, 2008 Southern New Hampshire University. Click on the yellow boxes below for additional information about those presentations.
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Keynote Speaker  Patrick Moran
Our Plenary Speaker is Patrick Moran, a professor in the Master of Arts in Teaching Program at the SIT Graduate Institute
in Brattleboro, Vt. He has a special interest in the cultural dimension of language teaching and learning, a topic he explores
in Teaching Culture: Perspectives in Practice (Heinle & Heinle). He began his teaching career as a Peace Corps TEFL volunteer
in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. Since then, he has been involved in a variety of activities related to second language
education and language teacher education in the U.S. and abroad, including work in Peace Corps training and materials development,
language and culture orientation in France, and refugee resettlement education in Thailand and Indonesia. He is also an illustrator
of language learning and teaching materials, including Lexicarry: Pictures for Learning Languages, published by the language
teaching publishing house Pro Lingua Associates, which he cofounded.
Here's a look at conferences past...
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What's our focus?
Plenary: “Explaining Cultures: A Guide for the Perplexed”
“Why do people of the culture do what they do?” This question lies at the core of all language and
intercultural education: understanding–and explaining–another culture. Understanding another culture and putting
this into words is perhaps the most challenging aspect of intercultural education for both learners and for teachers of language
and culture. It is challenging because culture is a complex phenomenon, and because to understand and explain other cultures,
we need to understand and explain our own culture, and to recognize our own cultural conditioning. This talk explores the
challenges of explaining cultures and offers a set of practical strategies for teachers and learners. Workshop: “Cultural Knowings Framework: Practical Strategies
for Teaching Culture” Effective strategies for teaching culture depend on the nature
of cultural content and how it is learned, presented here as Knowing About, Knowing How, Knowing Why, and Knowing Oneself.
To teach each knowing, teachers need to adopt appropriate roles and techniques. Examples of content, techniques, and roles
are provided.
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