Cross-Cultural Students in the Classroom

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June 7, 2018
TESOL 103
LESSON 7

"If you have African American students that are being more active in class than your white students, you have to realize it may not be because they're just bad students. It may be because they’re following their paradigms of being very expressive... If an Asian student is not very participatory, don't worry about that. Because their culture, they're less expressive. They're taught to be very respectful of the teachers, and sometimes that high degree of respect will limit the comments that they may make in class because they're afraid that they might show that they don’t know something that maybe the teacher didn't teach well enough, or maybe they're questioning the teacher's opinion on something. Questioning what the teacher says would rarely be done in Asia. Disagreeing with a teacher would be rarely done. Some Asian students will go so far as to not even look the teacher in the eyes because that would show disrespect. It just depends on where you are in Asia. Asia is a very big place with many different cultures, it just depends on where they come from in Asia." (Professor Ivers)

How good it is to discover or to learn things related to different cultures! 

"Studies have been done where Asian students, who have come here to study in universities, have been shocked at the behavior of American students. American students, by Asian paradigms, are very rude and disrespectful."

Are we going to let that happen in your classroom? 
Are you going to get mad on your foreign students who do not know your culture? Or are you getting prepared so you can feel comfortable in your classroom and teach your students concerning those things? 

Now I have a biggest perspective of  TESOL classrooms because of what I am learning from the TESOL 103 course, I love it! Being aware of those things will give me more inspiration of how to deal with my students.


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