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Article published In: The Hard Work–Entertainment Continuum: Teaching Asian languages in Australia
Edited by Andy Kirkpatrick, Yong Zhong and Helen Kirkpatrick
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 12] 1995
► pp. 153–168

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Cultural components in the teaching of Asian languages

 | University of Newcastle
Published online: 1 January 1995
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https://doi.org/10.1075/aralss.12.10che
Abstract
The importance of understanding target cultures is an increasingly acknowledged aspect in the teaching of Asian languages. Yet how to incorporate the teaching of cultures with languages remains controversial. This paper will discuss a number of main paradigms of teaching target culture employed in Asian language programs and propose a concept of capacity which relates target cultures with the language learners’ own culture.
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