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Teaching Interculturality Across the Curriculum: Activities for Instructors of International Students. March 26, 2019. Who am I?. PhD Candidate in Second Language Studies (CAL) Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Teaching Fellow (JMC)
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Teaching Interculturality Across the Curriculum: Activities for Instructors of International Students March 26, 2019
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
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
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
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.
Categories • What makes “ME” • Culture matters • Communication in action • The way I see it • Here & There • Lessons Learned