Ideas for Teaching Canada in the EFL Classroom

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Didactics - English - Pedagogy Literature Studies grade: 10 http://www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik) course: Teaching the New English Cultures language: English abstract: Several current curricula for the German secondary EFL classroom (Rahmenrichtlinien) now include some of the so-called new English cultures like Australia New Zealand and Canada. Especially Canada considering its geographical and cultural proximity to the nowadays almost omnipresent USA presents itself as a natural addition to the traditional Anglophone cultures.I argue in favour of a didactic approach not only via history geography or any other specific 'Cultural' aspect alone but via a mixture of both 'big c' Culture and 'small c' culture using a selection of different authentic media and texts.