Differnces in Emotional Expressivity

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 this real bloody operation. This real bloody, gruesome operation. And the students reactions in the classroom were the reactions that were expected based on their cultural tolerance for expressivity.”
The way we express emotions differs from one culture to another, from one ethnic group to another.
Jeff Junior St Louis 




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