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 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...