Culture Bound :  Bridging the cultural gap in language teaching / 
edited by Joyce Merrill Valdes. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Cambridge University Press,  1986. 
 - xi, 222 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - Cambridge Language Teaching Library .
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Bibliography: p. 198-217. 
<br/><br/>"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 / <br/>  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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521310451 (pbk) 0521310458 (pbk) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>85029970  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Language and languages--Study and teaching.<br/>Language and culture.<br/>Intercultural communication.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P53  / .C76 1986