Introduction to Ethnography
for Language Learners

In the area of intercultural learning, the Introduction to Ethnography for Language Learners course shows how an understanding of ethnographical methods can enable students to make controlled and significant progress in their insight into the culture of the society in which they are living.

The course itself consists of nineteen units. On this website, the most frequently asked questions concerning the course are answered:

• What is an ethnography programme and why is it worth introducing it into the curriculum?
• How does ethnography contribute to students' cultural learning and intercultural competence?
• Does the students' language improve if they do ethnographic projects?
• As a modern linguist, how can I teach ethnography and assess ethnographic projects?
• Should this be a core/compulsory course?
• How should we organise the ethnography course?
• What does each unit consist of?
• What can be left out of any unit if there is not time to do it all?
• How is it possible to generalise from such specific, local and small-scale ethnographic studies?
• Why is the anthropological approach taken rather a traditional one?
• What is the value of the home ethnography?
• Why is the language of the ethnography course English?
• If students are spending a period of time in two countries, should they do an ethnographic study in each?
• How can we get students interested in ethnography when they have no idea what it is about?

For information about a forthcoming workshop on the Introduction to Ethnography for Language Learners course, run in collaboration with the subject centre.