Culture plays an integral part in the foreign language classroom.
TAs and faculty members met for a Bring Your Own Brainstorm lunch in October to discuss how culture influences language and how to use culture effectively in foreign language lessons. Confidence and a sense of accomplishment are good motivators. Use role play for dialogues and supply props to enliven the atmosphere of impromptu dialogues. In another form of role play, have students become characters from another culture. Students make a ten- minute historically accurate presentation using first person.