- •Outline
- •Introduction:
- •The influence of the host educational environment:
- •Foreign Methodologies:
- •Foreign culture and traditions:
- •The influence of the local culture and the local teacher's groups on the classroom environment:
- •The influence of the local culture:
- •The local teacher's groups on the classroom environment:
- •Reaching Conformity among all the overlapping cultures:
- •Conclusion:
- •References
Conclusion:
As Breen suggests in his study "The social context of language learning –a neglected situation" (1986), classroom interaction depicts a combination of different and sometimes conflicting cultures of the "internal world of the individual and the social world of the group". Holliday again emphasizes in his book Appropriate Methodology and Social Context (1994) that "classroom culture" is a combination of "wider […] complex of interrelated and overlapping cultures of different dimensions within the host educational environment". Halliday states the interrelated cultures involved as the following "host institution, student, professional academic, wider international education-related and national cultures" All of them overlap and determine the kind of classroom environment happening within any class.
References
Breen , Michael P. 1986The Social Context for Language Learning -A Neglected Situation
Collier, Malcolm. 1979. Collier A Film Study of Classrooms in Western Alaska Center for Cross-Cultural Studies University of Alaska.
Holliday, Appropriate Methodology and Social Context 1994.
Mahrous, A. A., Ahmed, a. a. (2010). A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Students’ Perceptions of the ---Effectiveness of Pedagogical Tools: The Middle East, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Pica, Teresa. "Questions from the Language Classroom: Research Perspectives" (1994).