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 28th october 2021                       Week7                          Culture and Psychology Within the paradigms that are involved in the culture, other important aspect is the combination between Culture and Psychology. All the cultures and subcultures take some customs, traditions and activities as things that are specific for doing only the woman and other things only for men. On one hand, it is interesting to see how according each place or culture there are these kind of division between genres, also bestowing prestige on certain activities and shame in others. On the other hand, the big effect that it has in the psychology of the people.    Did you know that is common to translate this cultural paradigms from generation to generation?       The culture into which one is born has a significant effect ...

 27th October 2021                Week 7          Difference in manners   As part of our culture, we have ingrained a lot of customs or particular rules and we show them in our treat to others and in our conduct and actions. If we have the opportunity to travel to other countries, we can notice that some things that are normal in our culture is not so common there, eve it can be waird. If we are not sure about some rule or specific manner to do something, we must to act as discreetly as possible or we can be considered unrefined, gross or somebody with bad manners.  People, tend to misinterpret the situations where somebody is acting according the customs of their own place o culture, because of that it is important try to familiarize with the differences between cultures around the world, in this way we will avoid offend to others and be more tolerate. If I think how can I translate this points and principl...

  25th October 2021                         Week 7                                   Cross-Cultural Students in the Classroom                   As teachers information, we need to be prepared for TFL/TESOL classrooms. It is a fact that in one moment of our teaching, we will have multi-cultural students and, in this environment, it is essential to develop skills and resources in order to deal with the different paradigms and situations in the best way possible.                      There are a plenty of ideas and resources to apply in our multicultural classrooms, to create an appropriate  environment, some of them can be:  To know personally each student in order to know deeply his/her personal things ...

          23th October 2021                        Week 6                            Attributional Tendencies Cultures                                  Our lives are marked with a lot of experiencies, good things and not so good. In the way we face different circumstances and we all take important decisions. I think that there are few moments where we analyze deeply -What do we attribute success?-  What do we attribute our personal failures? What do we success of others and the failures of others? and the consequences of our actions?  As we see in the picture above. As future teachers, we can shape our minds to be more concious of our actions, words and reactions with others, especially with our students. We don...

       23th, October                 week 6                  Personal Space Differences                       If there is something so personal is our SPACE, and it can vary according the different cultures, personal experiences, even the personality of each person. Around the world we have a lot of examples where we see very explicit how our treat to others can influence on this. For Germans, for example personal space is sacred and they feel stress of having their space invaded. Ivers says: "These cultural paradigm could be responsible for wars either directly or indirectly" to explain one of the reasons to react in this way. American people, feel a little uncomfortable if other person invade their personal space, they are the kind of people that firstly need to establish a relations...

  27th October           Week 6                             Individualism or Collectivism    Taking as reference the words of Ivers, we can understand two important aspects in the orientation and trait of the people. It can be INDIVIDUALISTIC O COLLECTIVISM, according the culture and customs. These kind of behaviors have pluses and negative things too and have different repercussions in life. if we tend to be individual, we have a clear orientation to be independent, self-reliant, direct, competitive and so on, but contrarily If we tend to be or to have a collective behavior, our orientation is more cooperative, socially, obedient and with a sense of belonging.           It is very important to know and recognize How is the personality of each student of our class, in order to motivate them. Sometimes we will need to work in grou...

  October 27th, 2021  -  Week 6                                Differences in emotional expressivity When we need to communicate or interact each other, part of the communication are our expressions, feelings and emotions. This aspect of communication is called -Emotional Expressivity-  This emotional expressivity is something very distinctive in everyone, and very engrained depending our culture. Because of that, is very common to misunderstood the different expressions or emotions based in the way people expresses it and how we understand or interpret the things or feelings that people is communicating. It is very important to understand that we all have the same emotions but not all express it in the same way. Even, studies have showed that in private we all express our emotions in a similar way, but in public we are very different. The facial expressions is somethi...

  15 - October - 2021      Week 5                                 Cultural Miscommunication Communication is an essential part of daily life. When we interact and establish conversations with others, we can have a lot of particular situations or difficulties because of miscommunication, especially between people of different cultures.  There are a plenty of examples that we can recognize as a cultural miscommunication. In Latin America people tend to be very kind and friendly, they don´t like to hurt your feelings, even they try to avoid confrontations or unpleasant feelings. But Americans have other kind of cultural communication, They are not so concious about the way that talk to others. They are a little more reserved, because of that, the conversations could be taken less interesting, maybe boring or without passion, even they communicate more directly and it...

October, 14th 2021 - WEEK 5  Cultural Differences in concerning TIME Time is an important part of our lives. Time addresses our routine, activities and lifestyle but depending the country we live it can have cultural differences. Ivers gives a interesting explanation about how time is accrossed by culture and how it differs around the world.    If we need to define TIME in two aspects, we say that TIME can be Monochronic or Polychronic. Monochronic Time is based in Schedules and punctuality, tasks and procedures, while Polychronic Time is related to the things you do in stride, executed in a parallel way, distractions and interruptions are a natural part of the life. Relationship, network and connections are paramount.  It is interesting to notice How can -the time- influence in our TFL classes. Depending where are our students from, we must to adapt or adjust our lessons according to their needs, time customs or time culture. It can be a real challenge but on t...

  October, 12th 2021 Week 5 TOPIC: Cultural Paradigms Have you ever thought How do we form our trends, perceptions, points of view, values and opinions?  Understanding what is a paradigm gives the response to this question. We are part of a society with diversity needs, problems and cultural differences. Each other´s paradigms differ immensely from culture to culture, things would be humiliating in one culture may be considered normal in another.  There are a lot of cultural clashes that define the meaning or definition of different stereotypes. For example: WEIGHT. It is interesting to analyze how much this issue differ in different cultures. In some countries the weight of a person can be synonym of sickness or contradictorily something normal o accepted. Culture creates false needs and false problems. It is important to realize the role these paradigms play around us. Sometimes our values or well being can be affected because of these parameters. Many people try t...