{"id":38,"date":"2008-05-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-07T18:09:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T22:09:18","slug":"culture-and-language-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lisa-hatton\/2008\/05\/29\/culture-and-language-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture and Language Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/james-hatton\/files\/2008\/05\/987_38558.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/james-hatton\/files\/2008\/05\/987_38558.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>Culture is key to language learning.\u00a0 As missionaries observe the culture of the people they are learning the language that describes that culture.\u00a0 Learning proceeds from the very concrete issues like names for the parts of a house, plants, food to the issues regarding their explanation of where they came from, what they are doing here and where they are going.<\/p>\n<p>In many tribal societies, animism is the predominant religion or worldview.\u00a0 Animism is the idea that our lives are controlled by spirits, the spirits of every living thing around them and even the spirits of departed ancestors.\u00a0 The key is to perform the necessary rituals to manipulate these spirits to do good or to refrain from doing evil.<\/p>\n<p>Consultants assist the missionaries in their culture and language acquisition and help assess the missionaries&#8217; proficiency and understanding.\u00a0 Once they have attained sufficient understanding of the culture and proficiency in the language, they are freed to prepare Bible lessons in order to teach.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Big Picture\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/james-hatton\/2008\/05\/29\/big-picture\/\" target=\"_self\">The Big Picture<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Evangelism\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/james-hatton\/2008\/05\/29\/evangelism\/\" target=\"_self\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Culture is key to language learning.\u00a0 As missionaries observe the culture of the people they are learning the language that describes that culture.\u00a0 Learning proceeds from the very concrete issues like names for the parts of a house, plants, food to the issues regarding their explanation of where they came from, what they are doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lisa-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lisa-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lisa-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lisa-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lisa-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lisa-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lisa-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lisa-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lisa-hatton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}