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May 31, 2018 TESOL 103 LESSON 6 "What is considered an acceptable choice to make in some cultures, might be considered a betrayal, possibly, in other cultures." (the Teacher) I really like being myself. As an EFL teacher I should teach my students about Individualism and Collectivism because they come from different cultures.  

May 29, 2018 TESOL 103 Lesson 6 “Emotional expressivity is one of the things that are more easily misunderstood than many other things in cross-cultural differences .” The following lines are my understanding concerning differences in Emotional Expressivity. Emotional expressivity is a very important point, I think, as an EFL teacher, I need to understand and then to make my students understand that their way of interpreting emotional expressivity might be wrong and that they must be careful when it comes to deal with this kind of question. I learned from the lecture that there is private and public showing emotional; that is very true because the way of expressing our emotions when we are in our personal room is not the way we do when we are in public.   “And studies have showed that in private we all express our emotions in a similar way. But in public, we're very dissimilar in the way we express our emotions. For example, a study was done in a classroom showing t...

Cultural Miscommunication could be very dangerous.  Based on the lecture miscommunication can cause wars, muders, sexual assaults, and many other difficulties. A simple reaction can be interpreted rude by people that come from another country; giving a red flower to a Chinese can be interprted differently by people coming from a different part of the world. As an EFL teacher, I must make sure to be aware of Cultural miscommunication so that I can help the students to communicate effectively with their classmates that come from different countries or that have different culture. Thus they will feel free communicating with one another.

May 24, 2018 TESOL 103 Lesson 5 The following lines you are about to read are my understanding about a lecture that a teacher at BYU-Idaho gave in class. Some people think that relationships and family are more important than schedules and/or tasks and procedures; they prioritise family and human relationships instead of schedules, they do not believe that time is more sacred than men, those people are polychronic. In the other hands, mono-chronic people believe that schedules, tasks, and procedures are more important than human relationships; for those people time is considered sacred. "American businesses have reputation for being cut off from employees morale and not worried about employees. Employees are just means to an end, not like members of the family." ( Edward T. Hall ) Professor Ivers said that the schedule is like the holy scriptures for mono-chronic people. As an EFL teacher I need to understand cultural differences in concerning time so that I treat ...

May 23/05/18 Lesson5 TESOL 103 About Cultural Paradigms “Two different people from two different cultures can witness the very same event…they are going to match them up with different paradigms with different interpretations. And so the very same-- the two people can see the very same event and if they are from different cultures they can interpret it very differently. ” The following lines are my understanding about Cultural Paradigms based on the readings. Paradigm is based interpretation, which means the same concept, object, or behavior will be interpreted differently from a culture to another. The paradigms we have in America are not the same in Africa, Asia, or Europe. A given behavior could be considered normal or polite in the US but considered rude and impolite in China.       The professor said, “Two different people from two different cultures can witness the very same event…they are going to match them up with different paradigms wi...

TESOL Lesson 2 May 3, 2018   Response to “Is The Great American Teacher Dead?” Cris Carrasco “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitious. Small people always try to do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too,  can become great.”  ( Mark Twain) I Learned so many things from the article that I don't really know what to share with you guys! The story told was about Demosthenes who was struggling to be good at Public Speaking, he claimed that even drunkards and illiterate people were better speakers than him, but with Satyrus's help and demonstration, he was convinced; the experience he had convinced him of the overwhelming importance of delivery and set him a speaking career that would bring him everlasting regard and put him on the intellectual map for millennia.             I also learned from the article that Public Speaking and teaching are cousins. At the core of...