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Bridging the language and culture gap: A study of cultural content and manner of presentation of "Integrated Chinese I".

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Bridging the language and culture gap: A study of cultural content and manner of presentation of "Integrated Chinese I"./
Author:	Feng, Jianping.
Description:	249 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-01, Section: A, page: 0119.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-01A.
Subject:	Education, Language and Literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3159676
ISBN:	0496927884

Bridging the language and culture gap: A study of cultural content and manner of presentation of "Integrated Chinese I".
Feng, Jianping.

Bridging the language and culture gap: A study of cultural content and manner of presentation of "Integrated Chinese I". - 249 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-01, Section: A, page: 0119.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Albany, 2004.

As people of the world grow closer, language and cultural study become even more indispensable to our communication. The task of educating our citizens to be inter-cultural communicators became especially urgent in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. The language profession has made great progress in the area of research and practice. However, the goals of language and culture still remain more theoretical than practical. Foreign language textbooks are instrumental in imparting language and cultural knowledge to students. Yet research has shown that there is relatively little study on foreign language textbooks, especially Asian language textbooks. There exists an overwhelming emphasis on the form of the language rather than on cultural content. Even when they contain cultural information, they are far from accurate, authentic, and diverse.

ISBN: 0496927884Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018115
Education, Language and Literature.

Bridging the language and culture gap: A study of cultural content and manner of presentation of "Integrated Chinese I".
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520 $a Textbooks reflect the fundamental views of the authors of language and cultural study. By examining these, we can assess, in part, whether our stated goals of language and cultural learning can be realized.
520 $a This is a study of the cultural content and manner of presentation of cultural content in Integrated Chinese I. With content analysis as its research methodology, six categories were adopted and adapted from other foreign language textbook researchers. These are: demographic information, expressions, social relations, social interactions, location of interactions, and manner of presentation.
520 $a The results indicate that even though the authors made some effort in presenting cultural information in dialogues, it is far from efficient and conscious. Because over 70% of the locations of interaction are set in the U.S., this variable has a cascading effect on other variables under study. Target cultural information is thus not as fully integrated into the textbook as it should have been.
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