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Teaching "The Big Bang Theory". Countering Stereotypes about Foreign Cultures by Using TV Series as Part of Web 2.0 Cultures in the EFLC

Teaching "The Big Bang Theory". Countering Stereotypes about Foreign Cultures by Using TV Series as Part of Web 2.0 Cultures in the EFLC

Yaniv, Olesja

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General ReferenceGeneral Education

ISBN10: 3668312877
ISBN13: 9783668312876
Publisher: Grin Verlag
Published: Oct 17 2016
Pages: 24
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.06 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,3, course: Teaching English as a Foreign Language, language: English, abstract: The television and internet, which enables permanent access to television shows, are two of the most popular media of our millennium and, thus, play a significant part in people s private life as well as in the occupational area. Thus, a transition of industrial society into an information society has been fulfilled since the end of the 1960s and includes a digitalized and interconnected world for the greatest extend. Those changes affect the whole everyday reality; an increasing number of all ages spend their time in front of monitors inside a virtual reality. The kind of learning has changed as well. For the young generation - the so called digital natives - the constant networking and opportunity of gaining knowledge easily became obvious. The digital learners should not consume rehashed knowledge anymore but need to be able to have the ability to use available knowledge and information, screen those usefully and thus, reach efficient learning outcomes. Hence, media literacy becomes a key qualification to participate in the information society. The combination of both, the television as a part of our lives and new digital learning, enables absorption and participation in foreign cultures, values and perceptions by the digital learners. Especially American lifestyle is influencing us in our everyday life. We see films and series from America and we use American products; but students are not always aware of how they adapt to the American lifestyle through watching American films or series. The Big Bang Theory is a good example of how the Americans and foreigners who live in America present themselves and how we get prejudices against other cultures with different cultural background which are presented in episodes of the series. In the course of lifelong

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