Cross-cultural issues in the classroom

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Cross-cultural issues in the classroom

yogiba61

Cross-cultural issues in the classroom

Dear friends,

I �m doing a course called "Cross-cultural issues in the classroom: strategies and guidelines to enhance interaction" I need some help because we have to design and developed an activity which could be used in an elf classroom taking into account any relevant cross-cultural issues. We have to present the project to the rest of the group and we don �t have much time, in fact we have to present it tomorrow. Can you give me any ideas? We �ve been thinking about anecdotes about stereotypes. What do you think? I would appreciate your help. Thank you very much in advance.

8 Jul 2009

celia86

HI! what about national stereotypes?? maybe you can discuss if it is a way of discriminating against people. I have a very nice text about this topic, but it is for an upper intermediate level, let me know if it is useful and I can email it to you

Good Luck!

8 Jul 2009

yogiba61

Great! I would appreciate if you can e-mail it to me .I �m sure it is useful Celia because we have to present the project in front of other teachers and they have to act as a students. Thank you very much.

8 Jul 2009

angryman

You could talk about the way peolple from other countries see you. You could invite people from foreign countries to talk about the issue with your students

8 Jul 2009

aftab57

Try this.

http://wilderdom.com/games/MulticulturalExperientialActivities.html

http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/crosscultural.php

http://www.beverlyhg-i.schools.nsw.edu.au/aaunindv/unindiv_heritage.htm

8 Jul 2009

douglas

You could do an entire lesson on "Tolerance"

-What is it? (dictionary meaning, personal meaning)

-What does the word mean to each student?

-With whom and how can we be tolerant?

-Where have they seen it recently?

-Where have they seen intolerance?

-How have tolerance and intolerance effected those involved?

-What do individual students do to be tolerant?

-What are some things that people think are being tolerant, but are actually racist or intolerant?

Activity: for each letter of the word "tolerance" find other words (or pictures) that describe it.

For example: under "T" you could have the word "talking" and show students talking about differences in their cultures or talking about things concerning tolerance that bother them

9 Jul 2009