In Part 1: Language in cultural context, we focus on how language develops in specific contexts, how meaning is determined by context, and how people express their identities through language. Demonstrate an awareness of how language and meaning are shaped by culture and context.

Culture is present in the way events have influenced expressions and the things locals might consider rude. It changes the way a language is used in everyday speech. Similarly, the context surrounding your language lessons contributes to how well you learn.

Language is intrinsic to the expression of culture. As a means of communicating values, beliefs and customs, it has an important social function and fosters feelings of group identity and solidarity. It is the means by which culture and its traditions and shared values may be conveyed and preserved.

Cultural context is related to the society where individuals are raised in and at how the culture affects behavior. It incorporates values that are learned and attitudes that are shared among groups of people. It includes beliefs, meanings, customs, ideas, language, norms.

All this new research shows us that the languages we speak not only reflect or express our thoughts, but also shape the very thoughts we wish to express. The structures that exist in our languages profoundly shape how we construct reality, and help make us as smart and sophisticated as we are.

Language is a crucial means for communication and interaction. Language not only reflects and expresses facts and observations, it also influences attitudes and behaviour. It thus constitutes a vital component of the cultural prerequisites underlying societal development.

Thus, language is also used to transmit values, laws, and cultural norms, including taboos. Language, since it expresses and reinforces culture, influences the personal identity of those living within the culture and creates boundaries of behavior. Those boundaries can include censorship.

Culture and language are inextricably linked. You can’t understand a culture without first learning a language. A specific language is usually associated with a particular group of people. You interact with the culture of the language’s speaker when you communicate in their language.

Children grow up in specific physical, social, cultural, economic and historical circumstances (their socio-cultural context), all of which will influence their childhood. Research has shown that children’s socio-cultural context can have a large influence on their development.

mean the deeper cultural roots of people. that influence their development or lack. of it. Development is a process of unfold-

Language and culture are symbiotic, with culture shaping language and language reflecting culture. Culture, meanwhile, is influenced by shared experiences, environment, and history. Language is more than words, and includes the way we speak in different accents and dialects.

In Part 1: Language in cultural context, we focus on how language develops in specific contexts, how meaning is determined by context, and how people express their identities through language. In this part of the course, you will be introduced to a range of text types, centered around various themes and topics.

Acquiring language skills is a natural part of children’s development, so parents will gradually notice changes in their child’s ability to communicate and express themselves. When and how children develop language skills is a subject of interest to many professionals working in health, psychology and education.

Thus, in cultural contexts in which extended family plays a large role in child rearing, focusing on the primary caregiver’s language may result in an incomplete representation of the richness of a child’s linguistic environment.

This cultural value would be transmitted through daily actions and through language use. Just as babies acquire knowledge of language practices at an astonishing rate in their first two years of life, so do they acquire cultural knowledge and values that are embedded in those language practices.