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Teaching Cultureprovides practical strategies for integrating language and culture study and outlines six goals for cultural instruction. Sample learning units, abundant activities, cultural mini-dramas, and student performance objectives help teachers illustrate how the cultural context of communication is vital to understanding the message.
The need for new approaches, methods, and techniques in cross-cultural training and intercultural education are virtually insatiable, especially for experiential activities. The emphasis in this book is on activities that foster the development of intercultural awareness and cross-cultural sensitivity, helping learners understand some of the principal dimensions of intercultural communication, cross-cultural human relations, and cultural diversity. The selections include simulations, case studies, role plays, critical incidents, and individual and group exercises. A number address relatively complex workplace issues; others focus on intercultural dynamics in educational contexts. Some are pr...
Success in international business requires communication across cultures while being sensitive to differing backgrounds and behaviours.
Do you sometimes wonder if you really belong any place? Do you feel that you belong everywhere but nowhere, that people don't understand you anywhere? Are you one of the many millions who have roots in different cultures? Do the common labels of nationality, race, language, or ethnicity fit too tightly on your complex and diverse self? For anyone searching for a more satisfying understanding of the dynamics of living on the cultural borderlands, "Between Cultures: Developing Self-Identity in a World of Diversity" Makes you more effective as you move across cultural divides. Helps you sort out the confusion inherent in being multicultural and realize your creative potential. Shows you why tra...
Teaching Culture provides practical strategies for integrating language and culture study and outlines six goals for cultural instruction. Sample learning units, abundant activities, cultural mini-dramas, and student performance objectives help teachers illustrate how the cultural context of communication is vital to understanding the message.
Provides a look at the possibilities and training requirements for dozens of jobs involving a wide variety of popular hobbies and interests. This book also provides advice on how readers can put their language savoir to work in the career of their dreams.
Supervisors, project managers and CEOs should find this book useful as it deals with an emerging global reality - culturally diverse people of both genders in the workplace. The new workplace environment demands that employees be selected, evaluated and promoted on the basis of performance competency, regardless of sex, race, religion or place of origin. Focusing on workplace diversity instead of concepts of "majority" and "minority" allows managers to offer all personnel equal opportunities. Affirmative action is now aimed at developing human potential. Diversity is becoming a worldwide phenomenon. Written from the North American viewpoint, this book examines the key concepts that drive American plants and offices today which are likely to be realities overseas tomorrow, and the concepts espoused in this book can be applied universally. The book fills a gap in management education and development. It is a practical manual designed to teach and encourage managers to lead and strengthen the human resources of an organization.
New economies are developing in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong and Western technology, management expertise, and capital are helping to fuel them. But every gain is hard won and Western business people who are successful need to know the ins and outs of Chinese bureaucracy, political systems, and the Chinese character. In this new edition of Chinese Etiquette and Ethics in Business, Boye Lafayette De Mente, who has lived and worked in the Far East for over thirty years, reveals the historic factors, collective traits, and individual qualities that determine how the Chinese do business today and the direction their economies will take in the future. His is an insider's ...
The process of rethinking the way we integrate language and culture instruction engages the identities, values, and expectations of teachers and learners alike. Teaching Culture: Perspectives in Practice offers multiple viewpoints on the inter-relationship between language and culture and how they serve to teach meaning, offer a lens of identity, and provide a mechanism for social participation. Authentic classroom experiences engage the reader and offer teachers invaluable support as they expand their ideas about how language and culture work together. Book jacket.
This report analyses all aspects of cultural diversity, which has emerged as a key concern of the international community in recent decades, and maps out new approaches to monitoring and shaping the changes that are taking place. It highlights, in particular, the interrelated challenges of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue and the way in which strong homogenizing forces are matched by persistent diversifying trends. The report proposes a series of ten policy-oriented recommendations, to the attention of States, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, international and regional bodies, national institutions and the private sector on how to invest in cultural diversity. Emphasizing the importance of cultural diversity in different areas (languages, education, communication and new media development, and creativity and the marketplace) based on data and examples collected from around the world, the report is also intended for the general public. It proposes a coherent vision of cultural diversity and clarifies how, far from being a threat, it can become beneficial to the action of the international community.