1. Preparing the Culture Presentation
CIED 4013: Capstone Course
Fall 2013
Dr. Bowles

2. The Presentation
You may choose either L1 or TL for your PPT and for your presentation
Choose a cultural experience from a TL country that you have visited
Describe the experience using the framework of the 3 Ps: practices, products, and perspectives

3. The Presentation 15-20 minute presentation
Presentation in the Target Language
Describe what you learned about the 3 Ps from the cultural experience you described in your essay

4. The Presentation
Describe how the experience transformed the way you view yourself
Describe how the experience transformed your cultural perspectives
Outline your plan for continuing growth of the TL and target culture

5. The Three Ps
Practices: the patterns of behavior accepted by a society; they represent knowledge of “what to do when and where (how individuals address each other, the social pecking order, the use of space, gestures, mealtime etiquette)

6. The Three Ps
Products: things created by members of the culture, both tangible (a house, a painting, an eating utensil, a piece of literature) and intangible (a system of education, a ritual, an oral tale, a dance)

7. The Three Ps
Perspectives: traditional ideas, attitudes, meanings, and values of members of that society (social hierarchy). Note that some perspectives have been lost even though there may be practices and products reflected of that former perspective.

8. Meanings, attitudes, values, ideas
The Culture Paradigm
Perspectives
Meanings, attitudes, values, ideas
Practices Products
Patterns of social interaction Books
tools
food
music
laws
games
Source: Shrum & Glisan, 2005,
Teacher’s Handbook, 3rd ed.

9. Kluckhohn Values Orientation Method
Five basic concerns common to
all human beings
What is a person’s assessment of innate human nature (perception of self and others)?
What is a person’s relation to nature (world view)?
What is a person’s temporal focus of life (temporal orientation)?

10. Kluckhohn Values Orientation Method
4. What is the principal model of activity (forms of activity) for a person, or the group to which he or she belongs?
5. What is the modality of the person’s or the group’s relationships to others (social relations)?
Source: Kluckhohn & Strodtbeck, 1961;
Ortuño, 1991

11. Kluckhohn Values Orientation Method
Person_Nature Orientation
Subject to
Harmony with
Mastery over
Time Orientation
Past
Present
Future
Activity Orientation
Being
Doing
Human Relations Orientation
Consensus laterally
Hierarchical authority
Individualism
Human Nature
Evil
Neutral / Mixed
Good
Person

12. Tips for the PPT Use a light background Use dark font, 24 pt at least
Limit your text on each slide (bullet pts are fine)
Rehearse before you present
Allow time for questions
Organize with an intro, body, and conclusion