Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 198-217.

"This book is designed to give language teachers a basis for introducing a cultural component into their teaching.

The paperback edition is a collection of selected essays that attempts to provide language teachers with a basis for introducing a cultural component into their teaching. It includes essays written especially for the volume, as well as some that have been previously published." (Publisher's Website)

CONTENTS

PART I: LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, AND CULTURE

1. Language and thought / Franz Boas

2. Culture and the written language / Robert B. Kaplan

3. Acculturation and mind / William R. Acton and Judith Walker de Felix

4. Learning a second culture / H. Douglas Brown

PART II: CULTURAL DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES

5. How to compare two cultures / Robert Lado

6. Kinesics and cross-cultural understanding / Genelle G. Morain

7. Intercultural differences and communicative approaches to foreign-language teaching in the Third World / Karl-Heinz Osterloh

8. '... So near the United States / John C. Condon

9. Cultural clues to the Middle Eastern student / Orin D. Parker and Educational Services Staff, AFME

10. XANADU "A miracle of rare device" : the teaching of English in China / Alan Maley

11. Compliments in cross-cultural perspective /
Nessa Wolfson

PART III: CLASSROOM APPLICATIONS

12. Culture in the classroom / Nelson Brooks

13. Newspapers : vehicles for teaching ESOL with a cultural focus / Charles H. Blatchford

14. Culture in literature / Joyce Merrill Valdes

15. English language teaching from an intercultural perspective / Stephen C. Dunnett, Fraida Dubin, and Amy Lezberg

16. An argument for culture analysis in the second language classroom / George H. Hughes

17. Culture bump and beyond / Carol M. Archer

18. The culture test / Rebecca M. Valette