Rooted+in+Culture

===In "Rooted in Culture," Professor Alvino Fantini from the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont, discusses the importance of teaching culture and being sensitive to native cultures, perspectives, and behaviors when interacting with speakers of the target language. Professor Fantini also joins a round-table discussion on ways of integrating culture into a foreign language curriculum and the challenge of helping students gain a cultural perspective. The discussion is moderated by University of Pittsburgh professor Richard Donato and includes teachers Leslie Birkland of Kirkland, Washington, and Lori Langer de Ramirez of New Hyde Park, New York. The video also features excerpts from Ms. Birkland's and Ms. Langer de Ramirez's classes, as well as other classes across different grade levels and languages.* The video addresses the following questions:===

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 * ** How do teachers integrate culture into instruction **
 * ** How do products and practices lead to perspectives? **
 * ** How do teachers build intercultural competence? **

Let's take time this morning to watch the video individually. Stop, pause, rewind as often as you need to. You can also use the English subtitles option to read along with the video, if you want. To turn on the subtitles, click on the "CC" button located either below or in the top right corner of the viewing screen.

Here is your task:

1. Watch the video 2. Discuss 2 things you learned from watching the video with your ICC group members (I suggest that you pause halfway thorough the video and discuss one thing from the first half and then finish and do the same at the end. Help your group members with any questions they may have by rephrasing or recapping parts of the discussion or retelling some of the examples given.)
 * If your group has questions or are unsure of something, use the 'Discussion' link at the top of this page to ask!! This means we should all be checking the discussion every once in a while so we can help our classmates!****

3. As a group, discuss the questions below and add your thoughts to the table. 4. Smile and Enjoy! 5. Stretch, walk around, take a break when you need/want First teachers need to accept they can't be an expert for all kinds of cultures, so they has to have mind that they are co-investigator, too. The best way is to interact with a native person. Through interaction we can acknowledge information about target country. || Teachers can use videos which show other cultures, and invite some guests who have lots of experience about certain culture. Also, they can visit cultural places, and use the internet to give experience to students. || Teachers can acquire knowledge from friends, videos, internet and travels. Teachers should be open-minded and have an eager to learn new cultural aspects as learners. To build up intercultural competence, teachers can use a role-play and show different aspects such as stereotypes, and exceptions. || ] Teacher can use video, native guests, e-mail, visits and realia. Teachers also can present resources as models. || Traveling gives the teachers authentic experiences. By motoring themselves, teachers can reflect how well they convey intercultural lessons to the students to improve their attitudes and skills. Teachers can cooperate by asking help from other teachers. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: '바탕'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 160%; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: '바탕'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">Teachers should accept that they are not perfect so they need to learn with students as co-investigator. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: '바탕'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 160%; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: '바탕'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">The textbook is a kind of sidebar, so teacher should go beyond the capsule of textbook. ] <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: '바탕'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 160%; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: '바탕'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">Traveling gives the teachers authentic experiences. ||  ||
 * ==** How do teachers acquire the knowledge, attitudes, skills, and awareness needed for intercultural competence? (How do they develop the skills needed to foster intercultural competence in their students?) **== || ==** What resources could teachers use, beyond the textbook, to build intercultural competencies for themselves and their students? **== ||
 * The teacher should admit that they don't know everything about culture. That shows one aspect of culture that culture can't be defined one way or by one fact. Then they can explore the culture together with the students. Keeping an eye on the current issue can help to foster interculture competence. The current issues can make us(teacher and students) feel connected to the issues and make interested in. Also, we should be critical to a media. Because media makes small part of culture looks like everything of the culture. If we believe what a media says only we'll be stuck to a very biased and prejudced world. || demonstrate the way the greeting, bringing the native people, using the Muvie (the new term ourgroup made for the music and movie) ||
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 * Teachers should go out into native community and contact native speakers. Dont' be afraid of saying "I don't know. I need help." Ask other teachers or native speakers help and teachers should work collaboratively each other. Also, techers should admit that they can not know everything and they can be co inverstgators with students. || ]<span style="color: #000000; font-family: '바탕'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 160%; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: '바탕'; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">Teachers can use Realia such as clothing, cards and souvenirs. Also, teachers can go out of the classroom and textbook. Teacher get information from Internet, email, videos and visit the cultural places. When teachers don't know about culture, they can ask co-teachers for help. ||
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