Offers a rejoinder to a response written about a previous article, "Living with Ambiguity: Toward Culture Exploration in Adult Second-Language Classrooms." Suggests the response offers a useful contribution to a much-needed conversation on how to attend to culture in adult second language classrooms at a time of the reconceptualization of the…

Outlines an approach to cultural instruction in adult second language education called "culture exploration," which calls for the recognition of ambiguity embedded in cross-cultural encounters. Culture exploration consists of employing techniques of ethnographic participant observation in and outside the classroom and holding reflective,…

Examines the representation of culture in texts designed for adult learners of English as a Second Language in Canada. Guiding the analysis is a view of culture as a process of making sense of the world and a site of struggles of people with multiple and shifting identities over meaning and representation. (Author/VWL)