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Cultural Awareness

2008

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Teaching Cultural Awareness Using The Four Skills, Alison Garza Jan 2008

Teaching Cultural Awareness Using The Four Skills, Alison Garza

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The following project examines the validity of teaching cultural awareness in a language classroom and includes five readers’ theatre plays that help students explore five different countries from around the globe. The countries were determined by the nationalities of the students that participated in the project. The setting for this study was a pull out ESL program in a public school with a large multi-ethnic population. Besides the plays, there are lesson plans, activities sheets and a biography of multi cultural books for children. All activities are designed to incorporate the four skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening.

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