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Traore, Moussa; Kyei-Blankson, Lydia – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2010
Many instructors are using literary texts along with language structure books in English as a Secondary Language (ESL) classrooms with the aim of increasing students' language skills. Since literature is often written to portray a particular cultural or authentic experience, the material presented may not be familiar to ESL students. Also, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Losambe, L. – Phylon, 1986
The three stages of expatriation are as follow: (1) at the village level, (2) the passage from village to city, and (3) the passage from Africa to the West. This article discusses the following novels which address these stages: (1) "Things Fall Apart," (2) "Arrow of God," (3) "The River Between," and (4) "No…
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, African Literature, Cultural Differences
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Hartman, Cheryl J. – Teaching Sociology, 2005
The author has been teaching Introduction to Sociology for several years, and each semester new students bring their own perspectives to the study of sociology, making the content fresh and new. In order to help students understand sociological concepts in more experiential ways and to give them a glimpse into a culture that may be different from…
Descriptors: African Culture, Sociology, Novels, Cultural Context