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The paper explains that culture is a learned system of beliefs that are personalized and that affect every aspect of a student's life. The paper further explains that culture is expressed through language, which is often particular to the societal group and requires a complete understanding of cultural values to comprehend. The paper shows how these two factors work hand-in-hand to shape the individual's learning and so concludes that both factors must be supported in the classroom.

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"Culture impacts every child that enters the school system because culture impacts how the child thinks, learns and becomes socialized in the educational community. Because the influences of culture on children begin from the time of birth, the information that affects the child's development is significant and so is the potential for conflict to arise within the classroom. This is because the student has learned to value his or her cultural ideas, which often become completely separate from the social norms expected in schools. Therefore, how culture is embraced or denied in the classroom has the potential to have long term affects on the manner in which the student continues a relationship with learning."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Banks, J. (1989). Multicultural education. Needham Hieghts: Allyn and Bacon.
• Culture in second language teaching. (2006). Center for Applied Linguistics. Retrieved January 20, 2007, from http://www.cal.org/resources/Digest/0309peterson.html
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• Denied at the door: Language barriers block immigrant parents from school involvement. (2004). Advocates for Children. Retrieved January 20, 2007, from http://www.advocatesforchildren.org/pubs/LAreport2-18-04.doc
• Heatwole, C. (n.d.). The geography of culture. State Educators Department. Retrieved January 20, 2007, from http://emsc32.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/grade3/geograph.html

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