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Enhancing Intercultural Teaching: Activities for International Students

Explore activities promoting interculturality in teaching and learning, emphasizing social transformation, diversity, and equality. Share feedback and reflections on personal teaching practices. Collaboration for inclusive education. Let's work together for a brighter future!

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Enhancing Intercultural Teaching: Activities for International Students

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  1. Teaching Interculturality Across the Curriculum: Activities for Instructors of International Students March 26, 2019

  2. Who am I? • PhD Candidate in Second Language Studies (CAL) • Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Teaching Fellow (JMC) • Research Interests: intercultural language teaching (Chinese students in the U.S.), qualitative research methodology, sociocultural approaches to SLA, intercultural communication, linguistic anthropology • 15 years of teaching experience: ESL, EFL, Literature • 6 languages • mom, teacher (born to teach, forced to research), writer, reader

  3. Why should we care? • Numbers don’t lie > 1,094,729 international students > U.S. > 2017/18 (Open Doors, 2018) • Cultural (mis)representations (Holliday, Kullman & Hyde, 2017) • Culturism & culturist language (Holliday et al., 2017) • Intercultural competence models (Byram, 1997; Deardorff, 2009; Dervin, 2016) • Chinese students > Long-standing stereotypes (Shi, 2006) • We are conscious human beings and recognize the need for constant professional and personal development 

  4. What’s interculturality in teaching and learning all about? • Intersects with democratic citizenship, human rights education, conflict transformation and global education • Has the potential for social transformation • Values diversity and promotes a world view that diversity is rooted in equality • Is about multiperspectivity • Stands against discrimination and other forms of intolerance and social injustice • Offers an alternative to multiculturalism • Promotes equal opportunities and active participation by giving everyone a voice • Takes into account the political and structural implications of everyday life

  5. How can we help each other? YOU are invited to: • Provide feedback on the activities, • Share your take on the ICC in general, • Reflect on your teaching practices, • “School me” through the lenses of your expertise. I will: • Present you with activities that I deem helpful when working with international students (so hopefully for your classes), • Listen to your feedback and welcome it, • Look forward to discussing how those activities could be improved and so on.

  6. Let’s get to work, shall we?!

  7. Categories • What makes “ME” • Culture matters • Communication in action • The way I see it • Here & There • Lessons Learned

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