Brown Bag Lunch Workshops: Emi Yamanaka and Kirby Chazal
Title: Using the IMAGE Model to Explore Cultural Perspectives in Communicative Contexts
When: Monday, April 10, 2017 at 1:30pm
Where: 718 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 206
This presentation focuses on how language instruction can be integrated with culture using the IMAGE Model (Glisan & Donato, 2016). This model, which uses images as a springboard to explore culture in a communicative context and provides teachers with a framework to shape engaging and meaningful discussions of culture at all levels of language instruction. The IMAGE Model encourages students to explore and interpret the deeper meaning of culture (moving beyond products and practices) as a system of shared values and beliefs, i.e., cultural perspectives. The presenters will examine a few concrete examples using the IMAGE acronym (Using Images, Making observations, Analyzing additional information, Generating hypothesis about cultural perspectives, Exploring perspectives and reflecting further) and discuss how this approach can be applied in our classrooms, starting at elementary-level courses.