Culture is an aspect of life that everyone creates along the way and all people interchange
many elements of it. For example, culture involves a language, customs,
history, values, attitudes, and so on. All these elements join people and they
modify it every day through the best communication media which is the language
that they have in common.
Besides, that “Culture
defines not only what its members should think or learn but also what they
should ignore or treat as irrelevant” (Eleanor Armour-Thomas & Sharon-ann
Gopaul- McNicol, 1998: 56). This is particularly true due to citizens were bred
under rules, values, thoughts and behaviors.
In the same way, culture
is the foundation of communication, language goes beyond words and structures,
it is related to culture directly due to culture explains who talks to whom,
and how people encode messages and so on.
On the other hand,
teaching the culture in the classroom it is very necessary to let students know
how native speakers thing and act. However, culture is viewed as some that go
beyond and cover more aspects and it is not something that you can teach; it is
something that you acquire along the time. So, it is necessary to show the way
and the classroom is the place which offers the chance to learn by interacting
each other through festivals, ceremonies, common expression, and so on.
Likewise, it is
necessary to know students already got a culture before they know one. So,
teaching culture brings awareness and fosters the student’s observation of
details in communication with native speakers of the target language.
INTERVIEWS
INTERVIEW 1:
She says that some
of the most important aspects to understand culture of English language, a
apart of the language, it’s to get involved on their holidays like Memorial Day
and Flag Day; relationship and values. This elements are essential to
understand English especially USA. This is particularly true due to everybody
in Colombia are very different and each person has his or her own way of being
and acting due to culture, history and education. Their people are similar to
other people. However, the people from this country are very open and have an
easy way of make a relationship with others so quickly. They have the
characteristic of smiling everything and enjoying everywhere.
INTERVIEW 2:
INTERVIEW 2:
He says that the
most primordial aspects for teaching the culture are the language, history,
values, beliefs, and so on. He says that values are very essential to
understand what a person really is. For instance Colombian people have their
own characteristics of being way and some of them could be higher than other
because all of them are so different aspects like the ones mentioned before.
However, there are a couple of good habits that excel on everyone such as their
capacity of not giving up as easily, finding solutions for everything and
charisma to delight everything and like this way make friends.
INTERVIEW 3:
He says that some
of the most useful elements to teach at a school to understand other culture
are the customs, history beliefs and attitudes. This is a mandatory to know it
and not go judging people without does not know it the truth. He said that
beliefs, According to the Political Constitution, Colombia is a lay country in
general. Nevertheless, like in other developed countries, there are people with
different deities and citizens praise then in different ways some of them are
acceptable in the society but there are others that are very freak and creepy
as well as there are people who do not believe in anything and other who
believe in energy and the spiritual and multidimensional power to cure and
transcend as on a energetically way.
In the same way,
other important aspect is the attitudes. For example, Colombian behavior it’s a
little different from other countries. For example, in united stated people are
reserved and Colombians tend to tell everyone about their country customs or
food. Also, Colombians persist more than others to reach what they want and
that make them competitive people, but in the same way they know when relax and
save time. All these attitudes as visible on some Colombian people but they are
the most essential and those which excel.
REFERENCES
UNAD. (2016, June 23). Defining
language and culture. Retrieved from datateca.unad.edu.co:
http://datateca.unad.edu.co/contenidos/551036/Defining_Language_and_culture_Unit_1.pdf
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