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Volume 16:2 February 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

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A Discourse Analysis of Learner-controlled
Culture-related Episodes in Undergraduate English as an
L2 Classroom in Assam, India

Sarat Kumar Doley

Abstract

The primary objective of this paper is to present an analysis of the moments of co-constructed cultural understanding achieved by the spoken interactions in which the learners take the initiative in classroom discourse. The data presented here is part of a study conducted on an advanced-level English as an L2 course at North Lakhimpur College, Assam. The study was primarily on the integration of culture teaching and language teaching in the teaching of L2. This paper is an attempt at an analysis of those culture-related episodes or moments of cultural discourse which were created by the interaction among the learners themselves in which the role of the instructor was relatively non-participatory or less participatory in nature.

Keywords: L2, Culture Teaching, Pedagogy, SLA, ELT.

1. Introduction

Teaching of Culture in L2 classroom is a process of teaching in which teaching of cultural information provides instances for language use or the collaborative understanding of the cultural perspectives in the target culture facilitates scope for language learning in the classroom. Taking this perspective, the culture-related episodes or Moments of Cultural Discourses (MCDs) are understood as the key moments of oral classroom interactions in the L2 under study between the instructor and the learners and among the learners themselves about the cultural practices or perspectives of the language community that speak the L2 in question as its mother tongue. The Moments of Cultural Discourses (MCDs) in which the cultural understanding was initiated and achieved spontaneously by the collaborative negotiation of meaning by the learners themselves in the oral class discourse were termed as the learner-controlled cultural episodes in a study of an undergraduate English as an L2 course designed to integrate teaching of culture and teaching of language.

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Sarat Kumar Doley
Assistant Professor
Department of English
North Lakhimpur College (Autonomous)
North Lakhimpur 787031
Assam
India
doleysarat@gmail.com
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