"Get Your Face Out of Mine": Culture-Oriented Distance in EFL Context. A Helpful Guide for Turkish EFL Teachers

Autor/in	Celik, Servet
Titel	"Get Your Face Out of Mine": Culture-Oriented Distance in EFL Context. A Helpful Guide for Turkish EFL Teachers
Quelle	128 (2005), S.37-50 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Second Language Instruction; Personal Space; Language Teachers; English (Second Language); Interviews; Second Language Learning; Nonverbal Communication; Teaching Methods; Guidance; Turkey; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Intimsphäre; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Beratung; Türkei; USA
Abstract	This research study aims to find out the experiences of Turkish EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers in the United States regarding the differences between their understanding and use of personal space and that of Americans, and to discuss how the issue is closely related to foreign language instruction. The study will center around a brand new term that I have coined, "culture-oriented distance," as an important part of non-verbal communication. However, in this paper, other forms of non-verbal communication as a general phenomenon will be referred to only briefly. The results will be followed by the implications of culture-oriented distance in foreign language teaching, and specifically Turkish EFL teachers will be presented with many possible ways to incorporate this cultural phenomenon in their language classrooms. Although there will be no attempt to generalize the findings beyond the participants of this study and EFL teaching in Turkey, some results might well be applicable to other contexts. (Contains 3 footnotes and 1 table.) (Author).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10