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ERIC Number: EJ313913
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1985
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Culture and Language: The Individual Approach.
Hammers, James
Foreign Language Annals, v18 n1 p53-58 Feb 1985
Discusses a procedure for individualizing foreign culture and language study. Students create a fictional autobiography of themselves in a foreign culture by adapting what they are learning to four simulated conditions: the physical, social, genetic, and temporal conditions which affect the life and personality of each individual in a culture. (SED)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, Cultural Influences, Individualized Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Simulation
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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