Allen, Edward David and Rebecca M. Valette.
Modern language Classroom Techniques
. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1972. Excellent handbook of teaching procedures.
Brooks, Nelson. “Teaching Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom,”
Foreign Language Annals
, Volume 16. New York: ACTFL, Inc., 1983. Good discussion of the many different meanings of culture and classroom procedures for incorporating them.
Brown, Ina Corine.
Understanding Other Cultures
. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963. Dr. Brown examines the many different ways societies approach and solve the problems common to all human beings.
Burdette, Barbara.
The Puerto Ricans: On the Island, On the Mainland, In Connecticut
. Connecticut: World Education Project, 1976. Manual developed to help students understand Puerto Rican Americans and their culture.
Fast, Julius.
Body Language
. New York: Pocket Books, 1970. Examines the science of Kinesics.
Green, Jerald R.
A Gesture Inventory for the Teaching of Spanish
. New York: Chilton Books, 1968. Illustrates the gesture system of peninsular Spanish.
Hendon, Ursula S. “Introducing Culture in the High School Foreign Language Class,”
Foreign Language Annals
, Volume 13. New York: ACTFL, Inc., 1980. Good resource for various methods of teaching culture.
Kluckhohn, Clyde.
Culture and Behavior
. New York: Free Press of Glencoe, 1962. Collection of essays on different aspects of culture.
Kramsch, Claire J. “Culture and Constructs: Communicating Attitudes and Values in the Foreign Language Classroom,”
Foreign Language Annals
, Volume 16. New York: ACTFL, Inc., 1983. Interesting techniques for promoting cross-cultural understanding.
Levno, Arley W. and Guenter G. Pfister. “An Analysis of the Surface Culture and Its Manner of Presentation in First-Year College Textbooks from 1972 to 1978,”
Foreign Language Annals,
Volume 13. New York: ACTFL, Inc., 1980. Good analysis of surface culture.
Narganes, Joseph and Dr. Richard I. Javert.
Hispanic Culture Capsules
. New York: Gessler Publishing Co., Inc., 1976. Each culture capsule contains crosscultural statements, notes, and activities for cultural involvement.
Wilkes, Helen. “Title Pages: A Simple Device for Cultural Consciousness-Raising in the Teenaged Student of French,”
Foreign Language Annals
, Volume 16. New York: ACTFL, Inc., 1983. Wilkes describes how title pages in a notebook can be utillized as vehicles for the introduction of surface culture.
Williams, Shirley Ahlers. “Spanish Cultural Materials with a Local Focus: The Chicano, Cuban, and Puerto Rican Connection,”
Foreign Language Annals,
Volume 1. New York: ACTFL, Inc., 1978. Suggestions, resource guides, and bibliographies for utilizing community resources in the teaching of Hispanic culture.