study constitute an attempt to demonstrate the role that perceptions of cultural identity play in accent and pronunciation of a learned foreign language. Social and professional identity of English language teachers and their impacts on students’ learning. It has been done by Nazanin Ravanbod in 2012. In this study several questions and portfolios are prepared and designed based on literature to help portray these identities. A total of 40 English teachers and 300 students are interviewed, audio-taped
this as a process of the globalisation of culture—“cultural integration and cultural disintegration that transcend the state-society level and occur on a trans-national or trans-societal level” (Featherstone, 1990: 1) if we try to engage a broader definition of culture. This essay will address how cultural identities and practices interweave with aspects of globalisation. Looking beyond theories of cultural homogenisation and polarisation, this essay will focus on various responses
Derrida’s Of Grammatology (1976) and this has made her apply deconstructive strategies to a range of theoretical writings and textual analyses that also includes feminism, Marxism, literary criticism and post colonialism. Can the Subaltern Speak?” is an essay that was first delivered in 1983. This well known treatise established Gayatri Spivak among the ranks of feminists who include history, geography, and class when they think and write about the development of women. Spivak’s main effort in all her writings
of investigation. Ecology, the relation between individuals and the physical environment also encompasses a deep sense of belonging to a society, a land, a culture and community, being indispensable to one's existence. In the early 1970s Canadian cultural nationalism positioned wilderness as mark of difference as well as an object of ecological
Upon getting its independence in 1921,Ireland became tied to the consolidation and affirmation of identity without English influence. There was a now a great community will to preserve what was left of the Irish culture drawing on national pride and cultural nationalism. A German Historian Fredrich Meinecke stated that there are two types of nations 1. Cultural nations and 2. Political nations. A Cultural nation like Ireland sees an ethnic and political stance overlap in the aims of the nation. Our
Radio, television, film, and the other products of media culture provide materials out of which we forge our very identities; our sense of selfhood; our notion of what it means to be male or female; our sense of class, of ethnicity and race, of nationality, of sexuality; and of "us" and "them." Media images help shape our view of the world and our deepest values: what we consider good or bad, positive or negative, moral or evil. Media stories provide the symbols, myths, and resources through which
Fandom is performative, projecting a range of cultural practices that constitute fan’s social formations. In the context of cultural community, fandom involves cultural works that are based on the fan’s performance that are shared with others. These performances are constructed by the norms within the fan culture. The cultural works within the fandom are treated as cultural artifacts that asserted the fan’s identity. “Fans of a popular television series [and/or film] may sample dialogue, summarize
Although I am Chinese, I am writing this essay in English. In fact, I spend most of my time communicating with others, expressing myself, and learning new knowledge in English. Regardless of my race, I, similar to many people across the world, use English as a primary language in my daily life. Most will agree that English is the international language of the world. To this day, English has been the most widely spread language around the globe. It is the official language of over 50 countries and
In this essay, I will demonstrate that if the Chinese Communist Party benefits today from a certain legitimacy inherited from
conscience. Thus, the purpose of the essay is to examine the significance of the Vietnam War as a collective memory in the American society. Specifically, the main focus will be on how the remembrance of the Vietnam