Appendix G: School Documents Analysis Criteria

 
Part 1 The Concept of Culture
 

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The Concept of Culture
School Documents (Official Documents, websites, etc.)
Curriculum
Syllabus
Different orientations to culture, such as
- a tool for acquiring knowledge and understanding of the beliefs, values, discourses, practices, and products of one’s own and other cultures,
- for effective communications
- for intercultural encounters, etc.
 
 
 
 
An approach such as language and culture are inseparable
 
 
 
Or new items emerged during the study
 
 
 
 
Part 2 Type of Culture
 

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Types of Culture
School Documents (Official Documents, websites, etc.)
Curriculum
Syllabus
Target Cultures: English Speaking Countries (English-speaking Cultures, e.g., UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, etc.)
 
 
 
International Cultures (Other cultures different than English-speaking cultures) 
 
 
 
 
 
Part 3: Aspects of Culture: Big C, Little c, and Deep Culture
 

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Aspects of Culture 
School Documents (Official Documents, websites, etc.)
Curriculum
Syllabus
Big C Culture
 
Does the teaching material include any activity related to 
 
politics, economy, history, geography, literature, art/social norms, education, architecture, and music.
 
If yes, how?
 
 
 
 
Little C Culture
 
Does the teaching material include any activity related to 
 
food, 
holiday, lifestyle, customs, 
values, 
hobbies, 
gestures
 
If yes, how?
 
 
 
 
Critical and Deep Culture
 
Does the teaching material deal with any of these?
 
Racism, xenophobia, discrimination (racial, cultural, gender, sexual orientation.), refugees’ problems, 
social inclusion, social problems
poverty
 
If yes, how? 
 
 
 
 
 
Part 4: Intercultural Components
 

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Intercultural Components 
School Documents (Official Documents, websites, etc.)
Curriculum
Syllabus
Attitudes:
 
Does the material develop students’ 
 
cultural diversity awareness?
 
empathy towards others?
 
tolerance towards others? 
 
curiosity about different cultures? 
 
respect to other cultures/nationalities/ethnicities/beliefs/, etc.?
 
challenging stereotypes? 
 
national identity? 
 
willingness to cooperate with people who have different cultural affiliations. 
 
 
 
 
Knowledge and Understanding
 
Does the material include 
 
internal diversity-heterogeneity of cultural groups?
 
awareness and understanding of one’s own and other’s assumptions, 
preconceptions, 
stereotypes, 
prejudices, 
overt and covert discrimination? 
 
understanding the influence of one’s own language and cultural affiliations on one's experience? 
 
communicative awareness, including verbal and nonverbal communicative conventions? 
 
knowledge of the
beliefs,
values,
practices, discourses, and products used by people by particular cultural orientations? 
 
understanding of processes of cultural, societal, and socially constructed nature of knowledge? 
 
 
 
 
 
Skills
 
Does the material develop students’ skills, such as?
 
Multi-perspectivity? 
 
Discovering information about other cultures? 
 
Interpreting other cultural practices, beliefs, and values and relating them to their own?
 
Ability to understand and respond to other people's thoughts, beliefs, values, and feelings? 
 
Cognitive flexibility? 
 
Critically evaluating and making judgments? 
 
Adapting their behaviours to the new cultural environment? 
 
Linguistic, 
 
sociolinguistic, 
 
and discourse skills?
 
Intercomprehension? (Use of more than one language or variety, or drawing on a known language to understand another.) 
 
Acting as a mediator in intercultural exchanges, including translating, interpreting, and explaining. 
 
 
 
 
Action 
 
Does the material develop students’ actions, including?
 
Seeking opportunities to engage with different cultural affiliations? 
 
Interacting and cooperating appropriately with people from different cultural backgrounds? 
 
Discussing differences in views and perspectives? 
 
Constructing common views and perspectives with people who have different cultural affiliations? 
 
Taking actions to defend and protect the dignity and human rights of people regardless of their cultural affiliations? 
 
Intervening and expressing opposition when there are expressions of prejudice and acts of discrimination against individuals or groups?
 
Challenging cultural stereotypes and prejudices?
 
Encouraging positive attitudes towards the contribution to the society made by individuals irrespective of their cultural affiliations? 
 
Mediating in situations of cultural conflict? 
 
 
 
 
 
Part 5: Analysis of teachers’ and students’ roles
 

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1. How are the roles of teachers presented in the school documents? (Supporter, assessor,

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facilitator, presenter, teacher-centered, etc.)

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2. How are the roles of students presented in the school documents? (Actively or merely acquire

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knowledge, cognitive or affective development they show, student-centered, etc.)
 
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