Utilizing Proverbs as a Focal Point to Cultural Awareness and Communicative Competence: Illustrations from Africa.

Richmond, Edmun B.

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ERIC Number: EJ354161

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Publication Date: 1987

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Utilizing Proverbs as a Focal Point to Cultural Awareness and Communicative Competence: Illustrations from Africa.

Richmond, Edmun B.

Foreign Language Annals, v20 n3 p213-16 May 1987

Proposes a model of target- and native-language proverb comparison which can be used to assist proverb analysis in the language curriculum, using examples from Mandinka, a West African language. (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Classification, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Cultural Awareness, Developing Nations, Language Patterns, Models, Proverbs, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Uncommonly Taught Languages

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Language: English

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