Ideas for Teaching Canada in the EFL Classroom

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Didactics - English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,0, http://www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Teaching the New English Cultures, language: English, abstract: Several current curricula for the German secondary EFL classroom (Rahmenrichtlinien) now include some of the so-called new English cultures, like Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Especially Canada, considering its geographical and cultural proximity to the nowadays almost omnipresent USA, presents itself as a natural addition to the "traditional" Anglophone cultures.I argue in favour of a didactic approach not only via history, geography, or any other specific 'Cultural' aspect alone, but via a mixture of both 'big c' Culture and 'small c' culture using a selection of different authentic media and texts.

Product details

• Authors: Volker Lorenz
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9783640135417
• ISBN: 978-3-640-13541-7
• No. of pages: 24
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 43 g
• Series: Akademische Schriftenreihe; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V93543; Akademische Schriftenreihe; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V93543
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Humanities, art, music > Education > Secondary school levels I and II