In this study, I collected and analyzed 13 articles on the Internet, journals as well as books. ... Methods While doing this research paper, because of limited time, secondary structure approach was pursued. 13 articles relating to the research questions of culture and ELT were selected for analysis. ... The rest came from books written by worldwide famous authors in my research field such as Nelson Brooks, Claire Kramsch... ... According to anthropologists, culture was referred to as "the whole way of life of people or group. ... Secondly, culture in the aspect of sociology refers to the...

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Lawrence Venuti, commenting on the great communication boom says, "Instantaneous communication facilitates the expansion of markets and outsourcing of production in different areas of the globe, augmenting the demand for simultaneous translations in multiple languages while accelerating the translation process.(396) reiterating the idea that translation has become endemic to all aspects of human life in the globalized world. ... The lack of translations, especially when seen with reference to books from the Islamic culture and other East Asian nations may be considered one of the primary rea...

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Many text books, and books for that matter, show some pain and struggling from non-European cultures; the books rarely tell a story of the pain they felt daily. ... As Quincy said language is like a body, renew it and make it better, as language is life. ... As Leslie Marmon Silko believed, along with most Native-Americans, history is not distant but all around your daily life; it is something that is not linear but all encompassing. ... To really engage upon the true meanings of words from different cultures, one must know the time and place that the meaning is coming from, and understan...

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Part of life involves overcoming obstacles. ... Having an obstacle in life it's hard. ... "I managed my version of an English smile: no show of teeth, no extreme, contortions of the facial muscle-I was at this time of my life practicing reserve and cool " (Ortiz Cofer 91). ... Mairs does not let her condition stop her life. ... During this time, there were heavy stereotypes on Latinas. ...

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Organisations are varied and have varied cultures, these are not planned or predictable, nonetheless, they are the natural outcomes of social relations and evolve over time. ... In addition to this, I will discuss how members of an organisation can affect the culture and, as a result, have an impact on their working life. ... According to a number of books published on organisational cultures, it is believed that having a strong culture implies having a strong organisation. ... There are a number of factors, such as size, objectives and people, which can influence a culture and the workin...

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The young Chinese boy was sent off to school, and he returned with books that did not have pictures of Chinese people in it. ... For example, the country boy came from a poor family who did not want to send him to school because they thought "he gets to be at least half as useful as a grown-up by the time he is eight or nine years old," but were forced due to proclamation. ... They are stuck believing that because they live in poverty no one in their family will be able to succeed in life. ... They need someone in their life to succeed and eventually lead them out of poverty. ... The reason of...

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Oral tradition also helps to educate the young and to teach important lessons about the past and about life. Since many oral traditions are well put together and are told often without any change, they are as dependable as any history books or as any recordings about a certain culture or being. ... Myths are those accounts, which portray the earliest possible time, including creation stories. ... Some historians research the facts of the epics with ancient written artifacts of that time. Arab traders and scholars of the time wrote accounts of these great empires and their important citie...

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For a time he reigns uneventfully. 15. ... Mary Wollstonecraft, a feminist in the eighteenth century, wrote many books and advocated for women's rights, but her work was never widely published or widely read and she never really improved the situation of women in her time (McKay 692). By modern standards, she is a hero because her cause was good, and she spent her life dedicated to her cause. Another example is Sir Lancelot Dulac of the Arthurian legend, who struggled to be good and moral throughout his entire life, but failed at resisting the temptations of lust (?...

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These works show the earliest works that tell the need of creativity in the human life. The early cave paintings show hunting and animals, which were very important in their way of life. ... Architecture, literature, and religion were important values in life. ... In the beginning it was very obvious that religion played a very important part in the life of the people. ... The Islam's follow the books of the Qu"ran as they did many thousands years ago and they also still travel to Mecca during the holy month of Ramadan. ...

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With the television at the center of this new visual culture, Marling contends, "Life in the fifties i! ... What better place and time for Walt Disney to introduce his theme park? ... Americans also used leisure time to take advantage of the hobby mania that swept through 1950s America. ... Society still equated food and home cooking with happiness, home and love, but a fear of failure and lack of time caused women to utilize new time saving devices and foods, such as canned soups, minute rice and cake mix. ... Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book emphasized such time saving devices. ...

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Ariel Dorfman is an Argentinian author who struggled throughout his life to find a balance between the Spanish and English languages. ... Dorfman, "in addition to being a noted critic and scholarhis books have been translated into more than thirty languages." (World Authors) Richard Rodriguez is a Mexican American Author who also struggled with bilingualism during his early life. ... Examples of such would be the life experiences of Ariel Dorfman, Richard Rodriguez and my personal experiences. ... I was able to experience life in two languages. ...

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During his time at Cherbourg school Chris Sarra helped the students of the school achieve outstanding results in literacy. ... It will also include developing meaning and understanding of a concept through real life experiences with discourse about those experiences. This approach enables students to learn whilst maintaining their cultural identity. 2.2 Resources Honey Ant Readers The Honey Ant Readers are a series of learn-to-read books written in Aboriginal languages, Aboriginal English and Standard English. ... Twelve Canoes The twelve canoes website explains the Yolngu peoples way of l...

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In an article written by Grieves (2009), Miriam Rose Ungunmerr-Baurmann speaks of how many Aboriginal people relate to Jesus because Jesus 'lived and taught a life of sharing because he loved without exception. ... Many other differences are apparent, and with western law and politics overseeing the rule of Australia it has created many difficulties for Indigenous Australians in education, cultural understanding, and general life. ... Shakespeare wrote, ' "And this our life...

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As an engaging cultural critic, professor at New York University, and author of numerous books on the themes of education and technology, Neil Postman is well positioned to comment on the relation of technology to culture. ... Postman shares the story of two priests who write the Pope asking if it was allowable to smoke and pray at the same time. ... Although social research may be able to provide some suggestions, it cannot provide legitimate answers to everyday life problems. ...

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