Intercultural Communication Activities in the Classroom: Turning Stumbling Blocks into Building Blocks.

Autor/in	Dillon, Randy K.
Titel	Intercultural Communication Activities in the Classroom: Turning Stumbling Blocks into Building Blocks.
Quelle	(1998), (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Behavior Patterns; Class Activities; Classroom Techniques; Communication Problems; Cultural Awareness; Educational Games; Higher Education; Instructional Improvement; Intercultural Communication; Multicultural Education; Nonverbal Communication; Simulation; Student Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Klassenführung; Kommunikationsbarriere; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Educational game; Lernspiel; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Unterrichtsqualität; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Multikulturelle Erziehung; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Simulation program; Simulationsprogramm
Abstract	This paper explores behavior patterns that inhibit effective communication in everyday, educational, and business cross-cultural settings. Opportunities to change these inhibiting patterns, metaphorically referred to as "stumbling blocks," into building blocks or tools for successful intercultural understandings are discussed in the paper through three structured intercultural simulation activities. The paper names six of these stumbling blocks as the assumption of similarities, language differences, non-verbal misinterpretations, preconceptions and stereotypes, tendencies to evaluate, and high anxiety. The paper suggests three activities: (1) the diversity board activity which encourages and challenges students to explore roles of others that they will encounter in a multicultural society; (2) the intercultural dart game, similar to the game "Trivial Pursuit," which concentrates on knowledge of intercultural information; and (3) "BARNGA" which is a card tournament where students play quick games of suits without engaging in any verbal communication. (Contains five references; a sample "diversity board" is appended.) (Author/CR)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC