Teaching Culture Online: Strategies to Develop the Cultures “C” in Asynchronous Learning Environments

This chapter explores the ways in which the language educator can be successful teaching culture together with language specifically in an asynchronous online environment. It provides examples of content, activities and assessments that are meaningful, collaborative and learner-centered, and that employ mobile technology familiar to the average instructor. In addition, it discusses the new role of the language professor in facilitating an integrated language and culture curriculum in a fully online setting. Through shifting the responsibilities and roles of the instructor, emphasizing social and teacher presence, and employing flexible learner-centered content and activities, previously face-to-face language classes can be successfully transformed to foster cultural competency asynchronously.

Creator

• Baumgardt, Julia
• Ikeda, Yuriko

Publisher

• IGI Global

Language

• English

Identifier

• 9781799877226
• DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7720-2
• 9781799877202
• 9781799877219

Mot-clé

• cultural competency
• integrated language and culture curriculum
• language education
• asynchronous online environment

Date created

• 2021

Related URL

• From the publisher:  https://www.igi-global.com/book/handbook-research-effective-online-language/265460#table-of-contents

Resource type

• Other

Rights statement

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/