Describes language lab listening activity designed to serve needs of the English as a second language class comprised of students at different levels of language proficiency, divergent native languages, multicultural backgrounds, and varying levels of formal education. Multilevel tasks are drawn from a common text, allowing students to do…

Discusses pedagogical issues for second-language teaching within the framework of a changing Canadian culture. These issues include consciousness raising to heighten teachers' and students' perceptions of the role of culture, teacher preparation for teaching in a multicultural classroom, and balancing the dominant cultural paradigm with the new…

Dissents with Virginia Sauve's argument that "culture is not about content, but about the making and remaking of relationships." The article argues that there is a strong knowledge basis for any culture and that stereotypes of other cultures evolve from knowledge of how people act and talk. The article concludes that Canadians must share…