Language and Literature as Aids to Cultural Integration

Ford stresses the essential role world language teachers play in developing "culturally integrated" students who will be able to understand the literature, music, and creative arts of the foreign peoples whose languages they are learning. Liberating language students from "excessively...

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Published in:CLA journal 2014-06, Vol.57 (4), p.255-261
Main Author: Ford, Nick Aaron
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African American culture
African Americans
American literature
Communication
Communities
Culture
Language instruction
Language teachers
Latin American culture
Literature
Political integration
Racial integration
Teachers
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Summary:Ford stresses the essential role world language teachers play in developing "culturally integrated" students who will be able to understand the literature, music, and creative arts of the foreign peoples whose languages they are learning. Liberating language students from "excessively narrow ideas" through the study of the literature of the peoples whose language they are learning is for Ford another objective of cultural integration. He underlines the inextricable link between communication and culture.
ISSN:0007-8549
2766-0265