According to Savignon and Sysoyev (2005), “cultures
are never static” (p. 36). Certainly, there are aspects
of culture that do not change or change at a slower rate,
such as values, norms, and historical heritage (Savignon &
Sysoyev, 2005), but teachers need “to recognize the limits
of this static nature and keep in mind that culture, as well as
language, is constantly changing, it is in flux (Lange, 1999).
The dynamic nature of culture brings a number of challenges
and concerns for teachers trying to choose relevant teaching
materials and activities (Savignon & Sysoyev, 2005). While
culture is often depicted as static in textbooks, the digital
media, authentic products and texts provide a more dynamic
environment.
Foreign language instructors are beginning to incorporate
more movies in the FL classroom as “an accessible
window” (Bueno, 2009, p. 319) to the target culture through
“combined effects of images, sounds, camera, plots and
dialogue” (Stephens, 2001, p. 2). The teachers’ major task
is to bring both language and culture into students’ social
reality (Lange, 1999), in order to make sure that they do not
possess incomplete or outdated knowledge about the target
language and its culture.
(Dema, O., Mueller, A. J., Teaching culture in the 21st century
language classroom, 2012. Adaptado)
The verb in the fragment “While culture is often depicted
as static in textbooks” (paragraph 2) is in the passive
voice. However, not all English verbs – or verb tenses –
can take a passive. The alternative in which the sentence
can be correctly rewritten in the passive voice is: