Search results for "Cultural learning"

Presentation of English-speaking cultures : upper secondary school textbooks of English in the 1980s and in the 2010s

2012

Englanti on yksi maailman levinneimmistä kielistä ja sitä puhutaan sekä äidinkielenä että vielä useammin toisena tai vieraana kielenä. Tämän moninaisuuden vuoksi on myös monia englanninkielisiä kulttuureja. Näistä tunnetuimpia ovat brittiläinen ja pohjoisamerikkalainen kulttuuri, jotka ovat myös hyvin esillä jokapäiväisessä elämässämme muun muassa television ja musiikin kautta. Tekstikirjoilla on tärkeä osa kielten opetuksessa ja niiden olisi hyvä heijastaa kohdekielten ja -kulttuurien todellista tilannetta maailmalla. Aikaisemmat tutkimukset kulttuurista kielten opetuksessa ovat nostaneet esille joitakin puutteita tekstikirjoissa. Ensinnäkin kirjat sisältävät usein stereotypioita, ja toise…

The school theatre as a place of cultural learning: the case of Soviet Latvia (1960s–1980s)

2017

AbstractThe goal of this article is to reveal how through school theatre activities under authoritarian rule, changes took place in pupil knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviour regarding culture, namely, how the process of cultural learning occurs. I use a historical case study, specifically the case of the Valmiera School Theatre, which was the leading theatre group, not only in Soviet Latvia, but also in the entire Soviet Union. My primary sources are eight unstructured interviews, 20 published memoirs, articles in the press, theatre programmes, and photographs. One part of Soviet pedagogy was aesthetic upbringing, which was implemented through state-funded collectives, including sch…

Explicit and implicit tasks for assessing hedonic-versus nutrition-based attitudes towards food in French children

2015

Attitudes are important precursors of behaviours. This study aims to compare the food attitudes (i.e., hedonic- and nutrition-based) of children using both an implicit pairing task and an explicit forced-choice categorization task suitable for the cognitive abilities of 5- to 11-year-olds. A dominance of hedonically driven attitudes was expected for all ages in the pairing task, designed to elicit affective and spontaneous answers, whereas a progressive emergence of nutrition-based attitudes was expected in the categorization task, designed to involve deliberate analyses of the costs/benefits of foods. An additional exploratory goal was to evaluate differences in the attitudes of normal and…

Expatriate experience as part of the life and career of the expatriate : a cross-cultural adjustment and learning perspective

2016

Amidst the ever increasing trend of globalization, expatriation has become of great con-cern. The nature of expatriation is argued to be subject to changes in the external context, organizational structures and careers. Nevertheless expatriates have traditionally been perceived as a fairly homogenous, broad population in the literature and the alternative forms of expatriation besides company-assigned expatriates have received little attention. The purpose of this study is to explore the changing face of expatriation and understand the phenomena of cross-cultural adjustment and learning and their perceived contribution to the overall experience. The study is a qualitative case study and the…

"No better, no worse - but definitely different" : the presentation of target cultures in two English textbook-series for Finnish secondary school ch…

2007

Sosiaalinen vuorovaikutusnäkökulma oppimiseen ja opettamiseen

2008

Kirja-arvio Hua, Zhu & Seedhouse, Paul & Wei, Li & Cook, Vivian (toim.): Language learning and teaching as social inter-action nonPeerReviewed