A presentation on Language and Culture, and how new technologies have shaped the relationship. On how this new relationship gives birth to a "culture without borders"

1. STORIES FROM A CULTURE WITHOUT BORDERS Lic. Mariana Porta The teaching of foreign languages must be made relevant to social life, where people need to communicate with each other in order to set the stage for possible mutual understanding. Claire Kramsh,1993

2. Why is it relevant?

3. The English Language on the Internet. English: 31.25% Chinese. 15.7% Spanish. 8.7% Millions of users

10. Lucia, Paysandú Raúl, Asunción Abril, Solymar Marcelo, Solymar Mariana. Solymar. Gladys, BA Alejo, Sol. Samit, Bangalore, India Salvador, Andalucía Jennifer, BA Analía. Lagomar Silvia, Mdeo Richard, Massachusetts Marian, Dallas Alicia, Paysandú Nicolás, BA Martín, Mdeo

12. http://www.doosesyndrome.com/index.html

13. http://www.maxine.net/index.html Marian Henley: comic creator Richard Stallman, the guru http://www.stallman.org/

14. Ex Boyfriends List From: Richard Stallman To: mkhenley@prodigy.net Subject: Application for membership in Ex Boyfriends List After reading what you've said about your Ex Boyfriends List, I wonder if you could tell me how to apply for a place in it? My motivation is not that I would like the cachet of being on the list. Rather I hope that the application process, of being judged for a place on the list, could be exciting or even joyous. If it takes you some time to decide whether I belong on the list, I won't mind waiting. I'm aware of the theoretical possibility that the process might not reach a conclusion, that I might remain permanently in limbo pending a decision about whether I am to become "ex". I know this is unlikely, and I'm willing to take the risk. For information about me, see my personal site, stallman.org. My work is described in www.gnu.org.

15. Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 10:56:14 -0800 (PST) Well, Richard, you are a real piece of work (as we Texas yokels are wont to say). The density of information on your personal website overwhelmed my brain circuits. I like your "power" tie. How did you find out about me? Marian

16. Thank you! I wore that power tie on a cruise ship, where I was being paid to give speeches and teaching classes for techies. (I would not have gone to such a place otherwise.) One evening they said people were supposed to wear formal dress. As a matter of principle, I don't own a real tie, so the "power" tie was the closest thing I had! The organizers agreed to pay me because a trip on a cruise ship would not in itself be a reward, not for me. I expected to be there alone. However, amazingly, I then found a sweetheart. So she went there with me--and she hated the experience. Sad to say, she is now in my ex-girlfriends list, which means I can now apply for a place in your ex-boyfriends list.

17. I read an interview with you in the Funny Times. You sound like fun. Aside from that, I like your cartoons. My favorite was the one where the couple get married with eyes closed, then say, "Who are you?" So, how do I go about applying?

18. Well, I'm currently involved with a surgeon in Nashville. In the event of a romantic catastrophe, would you consider a spot on the Emergency Reserve Boyfriend list?

19. I am honored! And experience suggests that starting a relationship in Emergency Mode is likely to speed the processing of my application--I might end up on the Ex Boyfriends List very soon, once the slot opens up. If you decide to maintain standards by waiting a little longer before considering my application, I'll understand. I'm also curious--how long have you been going out with him, and how did you meet him?

20. We met seven years ago at a Brave Combo show in Austin (at a great old dive called Liberty Lunch, now bulldozed to make way for a nearly vacant "office park" - am I crazy, or is office park an oxymoron?) We danced a little. He was quite nice, but I assumed he wasn't my type: thirteen years younger, clean-cut and pretty innocent. I still suspect he isn't my type, but perhaps that IS my type... M.

21. Have you been going out with him for seven years now? If so, that sounds like my emergency services are not likely to be needed soon. I am in Saigon, eating some aged Beemster cheese which I got a week ago in Amsterdam. It is midnight. I am supposed to go to sleep soon, since I have to wake up at 0730 to give a speech, but I don't feel sleepy yet. (I was awake till 3am!) This evening at dinner, eating some rice with chopped mussels, I had a cartoon idea for the first time in almost 2 years. I'm asking an artist who recently offered to draw for me if he wants to draw this. You might find it amusing.... [I'll publish the cartoon if it gets drawn]

22. It looks like you won't have room in the foreseeable future to consider any applicants for your ex-boyfriends list. (By now I should know better than to feel hope, but I can't quite learn this lesson.) However, it occurred to me that our discussion could serve another purpose. Would you mind if I post the whole conversation on my website? I could leave out any specific parts, if some of them give personal information you'd rather not publish. I think people might enjoy it. http://www.stallman.org/

23. Hi, Richard Good to hear from you. Last night I was thinking about your email from Saigon and wondering what high tech mission impossible took you there. I can't remember anything too personal in our "conversations," and my God, I just submitted a memoir to my agent that strips me to the core (hence the title: STRIP SEARCH). Please feel free to use whatever you like for your website if you think it might serve the higher entertainment good.

24. It's true that I seem to be slipping into a deeper commitment with my doc, although I'm having to control my claustrophobic reflex and keep my hand off the panic button. I'm just too old to keep repeating that tired pattern - although you seem like a remarkably intelligent, accomplished man and it's regrettable we can't get to know each other better at this point. Maybe we can meet on the coast of Portugal when we're eighty! Marian

32. Alejo’s drawings http://artealejo.blogspot.com/

33. Alejo and Salvador

35. ALEJO.-Este pequeño gran artista tiene una natural intuición para la plástica. Secuencias. Esa magia de las hojitas minuciosas, miniadas, misteriosas, nos llevan al Renacimiento. Explorando límites, recorriendo fronteras, para luego borrarlas. Alejo, espejo de Óscar Torres y Mantegna. Alejo, tus hojas me recuerdan el verano, o el verano me recuerda tus hojas ¡LARGA VIDA AL BLOG DE ALEJO¡ Venía el cielo con nubes humeantes las libretas que quien el canto suscribe tras coloquiar con poetas de ser mas joven quedara -cual mareado ovillejo, entre furioso y perplejo, tirado por la moqueta-. ¡Dios, cuántas curvadas recurvas, cuántas tangentes y rectas, cuánto mellado florete, cuántos dímes y diretes, cuanta inútil verbigracia entre el lamento y la ley del reglamento a la acracia tras la obviedad disputando…¡ Querido amigo, a tu dibujo respondo con el comienzo de una historia que me hace pensarla y pesarla y pasarla en visual. Ahí va. Al prinipio de todos los tiempos siempre era primavera en luz, siempre había claridad en la tierra, porque la noche la tenia un guarao escondida dentro de una caja o cabeza de toro tejida con fibra de tirite... Kuai-Mare RALMA ralmablogarte Sexo: Hombre País: ANDALUCIA : España Datos personales Ver todo el blog: creo que sabrás mas de mí que yo mismo. Y un deseo: simpatía y amistad. Savador’s texts

42. Functional-notional Audiolingualism Grammar translation To meet the local needs of local speakers and hearers in locally situated contexts Access to a national literature with unique cultural value. Access to elite culture The “great works” and the knowledge of “universal culture” Words and actions of everyday speakers in everyday life “ language use” The acquisition of skills, of automatic verbal behavior exquisite attention to shades of textual meaning English, French, German English, French, German Latin, Greek and Hebrew 70’s A local culture 50’s 60’s A national culture A universal culture

43. TODAY Discourse analysis, CLT, critical thinking strat. ESL and The expanded curriculum Immersion programs the language teacher as the catalyst for an ever-widening critical cultural competence "expand the traditional curriculum by incorporating issues of race, class, and gender” learners should be sent abroad to experience the culture "on location" the ability to understand other cultures is itself mediated through language AUTHENTIC TEXTS AND HYPERTEXTS broaden and diversify traditional views of culture beyond nation states. acquisition of information about the customs, institutions and history of a society other than one's own USA European "critical cross-cultural literacy". multiculturalism interculturalism

45. All the pictures and texts used in the presentation are either publicly available on the Internet or have been used with the owner/author’s permission.

47. http://eflprofessionals.blogspot.com [email_address] [email_address] Lic. Mariana Porta