Preface vii // Part I Language, thought, and culture 1 // 1 Language and thought 5 - Franz Boas // 2 Culture and the written language 8 - Robert B. Kaplan // 3 Acculturation and mind 20 - William R. Acton and Judith Walker de Felix // 4 Learning a second culture 33 - H. Douglas Brown // Part II Cultural differences and similarities 49 // 5 How to compare two cultures 52 - Robert Lado // 6 Kinesics and cross-cultural understanding 64 - Genelle G. Morain // 7 Intercultural differences and communicative approaches foreign-language teaching in the Third World 77 - Karl-Heinz Osterloh // 8 “So near the United States” 85 - John C. Condon // 9 Cultural clues to the Middle Eastern student 94 - Orin D. Parker and Educational Services Staff, AFME // 10 XANADU - “A miracle of rare device”: the teaching of English in China 102 - Alan Maley // 11 Compliments in cross-cultural perspective 112 - Nessa Wolfson // Part III Classroom applications 121 // 12 Culture in the classroom 123 - Nelson Brooks // 13 Newspapers: vehicles for teaching ESOL with a cultural focus 130 - Charles H. ? latch Ford // 14 Culture in literature 137 - Joyce Merrill Valdes // 15 English language teaching from an intercultural perspective 148 - Stephen C. Dunnett, Fraida Dubin, and Amy Lezberg // 16 An argument for culture analysis in the second language classroom 162 - George H. Hughes // 17 Culture bump and beyond 170 - Carol M. Archer // 18 The culture test 179 - Rebecca M. Valette // Bibliography 198 // Index 219