Teaching Language, Learning Culture

RICHARD M. SWIDERSKI is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Moi University in Kenya./e He has written many books including Voices: An Anthropologist's Encounter with Italian-American Tradition (1986), Blood Weddings: The Knanaya of Keraka (1988), and Lives Between Cultures (1991).

• The Cultural Context of Language Teaching Language and Culture The Presence of Culture in the Language Classroom Transmitting Culture in the Language Classroom Awareness of Culture: the Course Promoting Culture Learning through Language Teaching Not the Whole Language But Enough: Lexical Culture Forming and Using a Cultural Lexicon: English and Mayan Learning and Not Learning Swahili Language as Cultural Utterances Language as Cultural Pidgin: Another Tiny Nation The Size of Cultural Utterances: Ninja Turtles Conditions of Cultural Learning: Cultural Conditions of Learning Pedagogy of Cultural Utterance: Reading the Newspaper with Naoko Language Ideas, Ideals, Ideologies: Japanese and English Reading Transcription Discourse and Culture The Cultural Politics of Language Learning Language Policy and Language Learning Language Teacher Training as Cultural Conversion: Matesol Learning Kanji: A Cultural Politics of Reading Lifetimes of Language Learning Across Cultures A Suggestopedia Love Story Conclusion References