Culture as Information and Culture as Affective Process: A Comparative Study  

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Wright, David A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Foreign Language Annals (Full Text; di PROQUEST 2004 - terbaru) vol. 33 no. 3 (2000), page 330-341.
Fulltext: 33_03_Wright.pdf (1.11MB)

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This paper describes an application of the Cross-Cultural Adaptability Inventory or CCAI (Kelley and Meyers I995a) to measure the effects of two ways to teach about German culture in beginning language courses. A first language (LI) process-oriented approach and a second language (L2) knowledge-based approach were implemented in separate classes. Students filled out the CCAI in pretreatment and post-treatment conditions. Quantitative analyses of results established that the treatment group, taught with constructivist, process-oriented tasks as articulated in the National Standards (1996), experienced significantly positive results on the CCAl composite score and on two out of four subs cales that assess cultural sensibilities. Conversely, the control group, which spent commensurate time working with knowledge-based orientations characteristic of many textbooks on the market today, experienced a nonsignificant decrease in cultural receptivity in those same CCAI measures.

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