Stage 2 guidelines for speaking: Cultural framework

Here are some cultural framework objectives for Stage 2 speaking:

• To understand how people relate to their environment and the effect this has on them, on their interactions, and on their actions
• To understand the society and how people relate to each other on the basis of their place in the society. As your understanding grows, apply these insights in your interactions and your speech
• To understand the social situations in everyday life

Here are some cultural framework strategies for Stage 2 guidelines for speaking:

• Review

  Review insights gained through listening and reading and incorporate them into your speech.

• Analysis

  Analyze social situations of everyday life and how people act in them. Identify typical scripts and variations of scripts based on differences in social relationships among participants.

• Practice

  Use role play techniques to practice applying your insights into social relationships and scripts appropriately.

• Hypothesis testing

  When you form a hypothesis about an important aspect of the social structure and how it is reflected in people's behavior, check it out with a friend or language associate.

Here are some cultural framework techniques for Stage 2 guidelines for speaking:

• The Dialogue techniques
• The Series technique

Here are some cultural framework activities for Stage 2 guidelines for speaking:

The Social Visiting activity

• The Shopping Trip activity
• The Join in the Work activity
• The Eating Out activity

• Sociocultural themes: Environment
• Sociocultural themes: Daily life
• Sociocultural themes: Social relations

• Generic module: Stage 2 guidelines for speaking: Cultural framewor...
• In overview module: Stage 2: Speaking modules
• In modular book: Guidelines for a Language and Culture Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In document collection: Other Resources
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

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Page content last modified: 8 December 1998

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