Culture has become a vehemently significant issue in connection with teaching English in a country where English is not the mother tongue. ... I believe in focusing on individual needs, and involving students in the process of their learning. ... The intended learning outcomes of the new teaching: A Study in Practice During Spring Semester 2009, I taught the course "English 303: Short Stories" designed to introduce students to the short fiction of pre-modern and modern periods through short stories of England, Europe and Americas. ... And Bengali being a tonal language possesses...

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Introduction Australia is one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse nations in the world with over 6 million Australian residents born overseas, 25% of the population with a language background other than English and over 75% identifying with an ancestry other than 'Australian'. ... Thus students may develop a broader awareness of community at local, national, regional and global levels, and more successfully interact and engage across these levels; • multicultural education values the experiences and backgrounds of all students, staff and families, and draws upon ...

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Worse still, race and class are often the components leading to biased expectations, putting these students at a great disadvantage in learning and progressing through the educational system. ... Students who enter school speaking standard English as a second language may be hesitant in answering questions due to embarrassment, and are often incorrectly placed in slower classes, or labeled illiterate (Rathus, 1993). ... When a child speaks little, or no, English in the home or outside of the classroom environment, they may need intensive help in learning and mastering the English language. ...

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How a US Executive can Make a Good First Impression on an American Executive upon their First Business Meeting Introduction Japan, a country within the continent of Asia, is a chain of islands located east of Korea with a population exceeding 125 million. Japan does business in a wide range of industries and the Japanese are open to receiving imported products. The Japanese dominate the industry of electrical and electronic equipment and they are also top leaders in the production of vehicles, machinery, and chemicals. The Japanese are also main leaders in the fishing industry. Why is J...

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In the United States there are many people who know how to speak different languages because they emigrated from different countries. Language is the basis of any culture, so if you take away the language you take away the culture. It is this loss of language that has taken today's generations from their traditions and culture. Culture is the belief or behavior of a particular society and the way of life of its people. In addition, culture also is the training, development, refinement of mind, tastes, manners, and all other products of human work and thought. ...

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Making the learning process an uphill battle, when all that the kids are thinking about is the severity in which the word "nigger" imposes on American history. ... They all spoke fluent or close to fluent English, and had all recently experienced a case of culture shock. ...

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This paper outlines the differences in the cultures of the United States versus Asian Indian and Vietnamese cultures. I will look at these countries and make not only a comparison based on cultures, but also comparisons from a business perspective. Although there are many differences in general societies, some issues such as women in the workplace, and images in the media, stand across many borders. Using the United States as my comparison culture I will first discuss the customs, beliefs, and values of Americans as a society. Americans value making something of their lives in terms ...

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1. WORLDVIEW/RELIGION The worldview of people is the way they interpret reality and events, including images of themselves and how they relate to the world around them (pg 120). My worldview is shaped by my religion (pg 126) which is Christianity (pg 134). Everything I do is based on my religion and knowing that I am being watched over by God and that he sees everything I choose to do. I believe I am on this earth because God died for my sins and created me putting me on this earth. ...

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Little Saigon assists the newly arrived immigrants with a line of offices that provide translation services, school and job application assistance, English language classes, and employment that requires little or no skills. ...

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The Webster dictionary defines culture as: ..the total pattern of human behavior and artifacts and depending on man's capacity of learning and transmitting knowledge through the use of tools, language, and system of abstract thought, b: the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits constituting a distinct complex or tradition of a racial, religious or social group. ...

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But luckily for that bored college freshman, spacing out in his English 1020 classroom, he doesn't have to just dream about being in a kingdom or galaxy far, far away; he can experience it himself through a variety of mediums. ...

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