Integrating cultural tasks into the curriculum for language learning and/or crosscultural learning as an occasional, complementary activity offers opportunities on many levels to teachers around the world. It can be helpful in bringing the cultures and languages of countries to life and in preparing ...
However, there may be many words in one culture, for which the equivalents can not be found in other cultures; in other words, “vocabulary vacancy”. On the other hand, although we can find the equivalent word, the meaning extent of a word and the connotation of culture are not ...
C) with the student’s degree D) on the student’s part 8. He made ___ to the enormous power of the mass media.A) source B) reference C) information D) authority 9. Gray hair is one of the ___ consequences of getting older.A) natural B) accidental C) artificial D) dramatic...
5 Learners of languages, by exposing themselves to other cultures and institutional arrangements, are more likely to see differences of opinion and conflicts by approaching a problem from perspectives that incorporate the values and norms of othersas well as their own. Knowledge of other languages al...
4. Do you think it's important to know more than one language? Yes. Knowing another language helps you to understand people of other cultures not just verbally but socially. Also, in a growing global economy knowing more than one language gives you more opportunities. ...
第一单元 Communication Across Cultures 概括介绍跨文化交际,重点描述当今席卷世界 的“全球化”浪潮和由此产生的不同文化之间的碰撞和冲突,并在此时代背景下来认识身处 “地球村”中的不同文化群体所共同面对的跨文化交际问题。 第二单元 Culture and Communication 以文化和交际为中心话题,主要说明文化构成了 人们的...
My thinking is that with all those other words to express degrees of disdain, why lump “vagabond” in with the rest? It has its own distinct open-air, open-road free spirit! I wonder how perceptions of the word vary across cultures. For example, I’ve heard Great Britain permits over...
新人教选择性必修二课件u2 bridging cultures reading and thinking 教学视频选择性必修二u2readingandthinking unit three 课件 /教学视频/单元测试/统考 unit four 课件 /教学视频/单元测试/统考 unit five 课件 /教学视频/单元测试/统考 ...
根据第二段A study by Dr.Thomas Bak who is a lecturer at Edinburgh's School of Philosophy,Psychology and Language Sciences showed that bilingual(双语的)young learners performed better on attention tests and had better concentration than those who spoke only one language.Dr.Bak test...
Many of these deliberate gestures have different meanings (or no meaning at all) in other cultures. For example, the gestures of approval in U.S. culture mentioned above may be obscene or negative gestures in another culture.Try this: As an experiment in the power of non-verbal communication...