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From http://musicuentos.com/2015/06/question-culture/

Sara-Elizabeth Cottrell writes, “What is the point of teaching culture, anyway? Is it to get kids to realize that people are different? (They already do.) Is it to get them to try a new food? (Lengua, eww, gross. Does that have peanuts in it?)

“No, cultural awareness is more about perspective-taking. According to the research, children who show empathy will be more successful in life. And what is empathy? It’s ‘the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.’ It’s perspective-taking.”

Read how inquiry-based models can be used in your language classroom to help your students think about the beliefs in the target culture in this blog post: http://musicuentos.com/2015/06/question-culture/