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AFMLTA Day 2, Saturday 11 July
 
10:10
Penny -  In Lindy Norris' session, "Unpacking Intercultural Language Learning"
10:11
Penny -  Lindy was at the last conference in Sydney, 29yrs ago!
10:12
Penny -  She met her husband at that conference! :)
10:13
Penny -  How are teachers dealing with all this stuff? Lindy's impression is that teachers don't have enough to "hang on to" when they're looking at ILL.

Going to give us some ideas when looking at these ideas, and then use them when scaffolding programming in classrooms.
10:13
Penny -  Going to look at this from 3 perspectives: the "inter" bit and the "language bit" and the "culture" bit.
10:14
Penny -  The "inter" bit
Cultural mediation and Third place
So instead of "native like" our goals for our learners are "some degree of fluency", "reasonable knowledge" and the "ability to behave in roughly appropriate ways."
10:15
Penny -  It's important for us to think about what this actually means given the context we're in.   Make sure our kids, school communities and school principals understand this
10:16
Penny -  James Gee's work
Lindy likes the way he talks about discourse/Discourse.
A focus on "Big D Discourses" (Language + other stuff)
10:18
Penny -  James Gee (1999)
Making visible and recognisible who we are and what we are doing always involves a great deal more than "just language".   It involves acting-interacting-thinking-valuing-talking (sometimes writing-reading) in the "appropriate way" with the "appropriate" props at the "appropriate times" in the "appropriate" places.

discourse = language-in-use or stretches of language (like conversations or stories). "Big D Discourses are always language plus "other stuff"
10:19
Penny -  A couple of examples of big D discourses:

Chapter 1 of "Infidel" -> example
10:22
Twitterpcoutas -  Follow #AFMLTA09 at http://bit.ly/bpVun :)
10:24
Penny -  We're currently sitting here, with lanyards, participating the "D" Discourse of a conference. Our lanyards are our props.
10:24
TwitterSteve_Collis -  Penny Coutas doing a great job again taking live notes at the #AFMLTA09 language teachers conference http://bit.ly/32ytn
10:25
Penny -  That notion of thinking about this in terms of our language teaching programmes is very important. We need to think about what are the language features? What is the "language plus other stuff" that we need to think about?
10:25
Penny -  In many classes, it happens incidentally. Lindy argues that we need something to hang our planning on.   The idea of Discourse is one way of helping us.
10:26
Penny -  The "culture" bit
Could we find anything more complex than language and culture, probably not?   Soooo many definitions of "culture".   Rather than get into that, Lindy wants us to use a particular framework from Harris and Moran (2007)
10:27
Penny -  Harris and Moran (2007) 10 Categories of Culture
  1. Sense of Self and Space
  2. Comunication and Language
  3. Dress and Appearance
  4. Food and Feeding Habits
  5. Time and Time Consciousness
  6. Relationships
  7. Values and Norms
  8. Beliefs and Attitudes
  9. Mental Processes and Learning
  10. Work Habits and Practices
10:27
Penny -  Look at these 10 categories when planning organisational focus (not theme!)
10:27
Penny -  What is it in terms of big D discourses and Harris and Moran's categories of culture that I really need to think about in terms of language and culture in what I'm doing.
10:29
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