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Course Title: Language in Culture

II. Credit: 3 units
Pre-requisite: Cross Culture
Course Description: This course is designed to extend and to maximize the awareness, knowledge, and
development of ones culture through language and language skills.
Specific Objectives:
At the end of the term, each student should be able to:
1. Determine the functions and importance of language
2. Identify and measure the changes in language development
3. Comprehend English in both Language and Culture
4. Determine the effects of culture in schooling, second language acquisition and ways to help
English learners achieve language skills
5. Evaluate cultural patters that influence and develop language skills
6. Illustrate and show relationship of language and culture
7. Determine the importance of language and culture to a person, to a learner, and to well-oriented
individuals

Course Content:
I. PRELIMINARY PERIOD
A. Language Functions and importance
B. Language Changes
C. Methods of English Language development
1. Grammar-Translation Method
2. The Audio-Lingual method
3. The Direct Method
D. Communicative Methods
1. The Natural Approach
2. Total Physical Response
3. Suggestopedia
4. The Natural approaches
5. The silent way

II. MIDTERM PERIOD
Second Language Acquisition factors
A. Psychological factors
1. Affective Factors
2. Cognitive Factors
B. Sociocultural factors
1. Acculturation variables
2. Differential Status of Languages
3. Value systems
4. Dialects and standards of language
5. Cultural patterns and Organization of Schools

III. SECOND PRELIMINARY PERIOD
A. The English Language
1. English as a school subject
2. English as a Second Language
3. English into cultural studies
B. Culture
1. Nature of Culture
2. Cultural Contact


IV. FINAL PERIOD
A. Language and Culture
1. Relationship of Language and Culture
2. Effects of Culture in Schooling, Second Language Acquisition and ways to help
learners achieve language skills