Task 4. Final Education.
Brayan Andrés Calderón Urueña.
Code: 1083910824
Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia.
March 17th, 2020.
Author's note:
Language and Culture course.
Tutor's name:
Group number:
Bachelor's degree in English as a Foreign Language.
Introduction.
The relation between Language and Culture has been established since the need that they are the complement of each other due to when you are involved in the role of teaching and/or learning a language, you will get familiar such as culture in different ways. This is why both are meaningful features of any social group and they represent a lot as traditional forms and more.
Thanks to the development of these tasks during the course. I realized how relevant they are to acknowledge our culture's value and what we must respect and protect. Here you will see evidence of that performance.
Canada Country
Canadian Culture, Customs, and Traditions
Literature
Canadian Fairy Tales, Folk Tales and Fables
The
relationship between language and culture and culture
“Do we
teach language using culture or do we teach culture using language”.
Language may be
seen as one of the main means which we as social individuals conduct our social
lives. A long time ago, language has been an essential part of our culture and
in like manner, it has become a source of knowledge accumulation.
The act of
communication among human beings may be done effectively trough verbal and
non-verbal language, it means the way how people share their the world through
messages, knowledge, emotions, and values.
And from now on,
there is a hard question to solve; What is culture? Yassine, (2006) asserts
culture can be defined as an acceptable interaction within the society as a
group, what it involves and what the group does. Therefore, both culture and
language are directly related since we teach culture using language without
being aware of that.
On the other hand,
if any person is aware that belongs and is involved in a culture who he is
learning, that person may definitely have a better performance and comprehend
the language in an easier way. This is absolutely right in those communities
where a foreign language is being taught, due to it is needless to say not a
part of students' everyday life.
So, the
development of the question which we began this reflection, it maybe confusing
and it suggests us some kind of search since after watching and reading
reliable sources, we get the conclusion that culture and language are always
linked to each other.
It is necessary to
take into account that culture represents for each country and communities. In
the same way, everyone who is teaching any language needs to get immersed in
that culture first and to comprehend the main and secondary features and so, be
able to give the best at the time of teaching for being prepared to solve any
doubt.
For this purpose,
it is necessary to analyze the social context, fundamental in the development
of each individual and even more, that world that implies action as relevant as
communication.
In this
order of ideas, culture is taught through language. This affirmation must be
supported under the possibility of analyzing and reflecting on what tools the
apprentice is being allowed to be part of that foreign context, having the
ability to convert the non-family into a family.
Now, it is
necessary to reflect on the type of culture that is being taught through
language, thinking about what kind of context we wish for our learners to take
part in and with that assumption, having the ability to see, experience and
enjoy the world from other perspectives.
PowToon
Presentation.
The
following link will show you the task related to social identity.
Interview to an English
Teacher.
Conclusions about unit 1.
The interview made a lot of emphasis on how important culture is in learning a foreign language and how important language is in learning a new culture, over time we have been learning new words that were not known for many years since as time goes by the culture in some countries is changing and that means that the language is also constantly changing and what to learn the language of a different country from the one you were born you have to know its culture.
The interview made a lot of emphasis on how important culture is in learning a foreign language and how important language is in learning a new culture, over time we have been learning new words that were not known for many years since as time goes by the culture in some countries is changing and that means that the language is also constantly changing and what to learn the language of a different country from the one you were born you have to know its culture.
Culture,
Language and Education
Mind map.
Canada Country
Canada’s
Flag
|
Form of Government: Federal parliamentary
state.
Capital: Ottawa.
Population: 36,307,820.
Official Language: English and
French.
Money: Canadian dollar.
Coat of
Arms
|
Canada is a really big land! There
you may delight plenty of landscapes, with magnificent mountains, rolling
plains, forested valleys, and wonderful lakes and rivers. Talking about its
shield, a hilly region of lakes and swamps stretches across northern Canada and
has some of the oldest rock on Earth.
In northern Canada there is a
frozen Arctic zone. That sector is full of snow, ice, and glaciers. Despite the
inclement cold and harsh climate, native Canadians live there and they live
normally.
First Canadians living there came
up 15,000 and 30,000 years ago approximately, crossing a bridge which used to
join Asia with North America. Around A.D 1,000 the Viking explorer Leif
Eriksson discovered Newfoundland, Canada. He made an effort at the moment of establishing
a settlement, but his efforts went down quickly.
In the 16th
century, French and British settlers arrived. Land disputes between farmers and
fur traders led to four wars between 1689 and 1763. The final war, called the
French and Indian War, left the British in control of Canada, but French
influence continued and remains strong even today.
Canadian people and culture
Picture 1. Glavin,
Terry (2017). Are white Canadians becoming conscious of their witness?
Canada’s history consists of a mixture of
British, French and indigenous cultures and traditions, through language, art,
and music. Indigenous people are still influencing the identity of Canadians.
In 20th century a different bunch of nationalities like
African, Caribbean and Asian ones, which have added identity and culture.
Canadian Culture, Customs, and Traditions
Canada is a
multicultural country whose culture is formed from a variety of influences. For
that reason, Canada has a lot of Culture, Customs and Traditions that they are
not from Canada but from the rest of the world.
Symbols
Canada's national
symbols are influenced by natural, historical, and indigenous sources. The use
of the maple leaf as a Canadian symbol dates to the early 18th century.
Prominent symbols include the sports of hockey and lacrosse, the beaver,
Canadian goose, common loon, Canadian horse, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
the Canadian Rockies, and more recently the totem pole and Inuksuk.
Picture 2. Incomible. S.f. Iconos
de Canada Los símbolos y atracciones tradicionales canadienses.
Literature
Canadian
literature was viewed as some of the world's best. The first truly Canadian
literary works were written in French by explorers, missionaries, and settlers,
and many of them became the inspiration for subsequent writings. Although the
growth of novel writing was the main feature of Canada’s literary scene after
World War I, marked changes also took place in the work of Canadian poets
during that period.
Art
Sculpture and
handicrafts have existed in beginning Canada’s history, though it was only in
the 20th century that museums and scholars began to value important
masterpieces such as the stone carvings of the Inuit and the totem-pole
carvings of the Northwest Coast Indians. Since then, new kinds of Inuit
sculpture and graphic work have flourished, as artists have built on their own
history and also borrowed elements from the Western tradition.
Painting has been the focus of most
Canadian artists since the arrival of the Europeans. Canadian painters were
greatly influenced by the styles of their European roots, but their subject
matter increasingly came to be Canadian locales and landscapes.
Sculpture in Canada was for many years
much less avidly pursued than painting. The works that were produced consisted
largely of carved figures made of wood, stone, or bronze. In the last year of
the 20th century, new media such as video art and performance art were challenging
the dominance of painting and traditional forms of sculpture.
Picture 4. Franklin Carmichael's October
Gold, 1922 (McMichael Canadian Art Collection)
Canadian Fairy Tales, Folk Tales and Fables
Canadian folklore
and fairy tales were influenced by regions and ethnocultural groups along
Canada. With Inuit-Indian folklore, French Canadian and Anglo-Canadian
folklore, to name just a few, the breadth of folkloric history in Canada is a
vast and colorful one. The folk tales are filled with legends of the Sasquatch,
Ogopogo, and other forest monsters. Magical tales of werewolves, witches and
devils are favorites among the stories for children and adults.
From 17th-century
explorers, trappers, and traders, missionaries and migration myths, the folklore
is rich in history, customs, and beliefs. The strong oral traditions in the
early 1900s helped Canadians establish a national identity, and fortify their
cultural ties. With influence from over 70 oral traditions from around the
world, Canadian folk tales cannot be classified easily as their roots can be
traced all across Europe and even back to medieval times.
Canadian folklore and fairy tales
are outstanding, smart and fun-loving tales that transform the ordinary into
the extraordinary. Many of the Canadian Native American tales are creation or
origin myths that have strong themes of nature and the seasons similar to
Native American folklore throughout the Americas. Like most countries,
storytelling in Canada is deeply rooted in tradition and cultural identity.
Picture
5. Cyrus Macmillan (2019). Canadian fairy tales.
Conclusion about unit 2.
The current search allowed me to appreciate how
cultural and multicultural a nation can be. We may find a lot of diverse
features in each country for all likes and wishes, but undoubtedly it is
relevant to value and respect ours not as an egoist way but as something each
inhabitant will keep and protect generation by generation.
Canada is a great country which you may learn
and enjoy a lot thanks to the variety of literature, arts, landscapes, and fairy
tales. That is why is one of the most well- structure countries and the first
option for a huge part of tourists.
Conclusions
Language and culture course let me understand in a better way the relevance of recognizing what we are teaching in fields of those relevant features of any social group like it is language and culture. I remember that sort of debate about if you teach culture through language or vice versa. I got to the conclusion that they are directly related and complement each other.
Then, I had the magnificent chance to look up information and got involved in the culture and tradition of another country like Canada. Which is quite different from my country but at the same time, recognize the essential points of Colombia and value them a little bit more.
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Cyrus Macmillan (2019). Canadian fairy tales.
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Franklin Carmichael's October Gold, 1922 (McMichael
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