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Inter-English • Posts Tagged ‘CrossCultural’
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SIT ON YOUR HANDS! You seem unhappy.” “Oh no,” they blurted out in unison. “This is the way Russian students show respect to the teacher. We LOVE this class.”. The most unlikely personages are guilty of this. Bush Sr., in Australia in 1992, raised his fingers in the “V” sign meaning peace. Little did he know that in the Anglo world that gesture was tantamount to giving his audience the finger! Understanding that non-verbal signals differ from culture to culture;. Additionally, don’t trust your inst...
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Inter-English • Posts Tagged ‘communication’
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STANDARD ENGLISH IS THE STANDARD. We do not realize how much of our everyday talk consists of non-Standard items like idioms; often we are not even aware of using one. We would do well to become aware, because slipping them into our talk presents a problem for a NNS, whose English language textbook didn’t cover many idioms. With a newcomer, avoid using idioms as much as possible, even if she is fairly fluent. With someone who has been here for a few years, it depends on the situation…. Rdquo; is an accus...
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Inter-English • Posts Tagged ‘idioms’
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STANDARD ENGLISH IS THE STANDARD. We do not realize how much of our everyday talk consists of non-Standard items like idioms; often we are not even aware of using one. We would do well to become aware, because slipping them into our talk presents a problem for a NNS, whose English language textbook didn’t cover many idioms. With a newcomer, avoid using idioms as much as possible, even if she is fairly fluent. With someone who has been here for a few years, it depends on the situation…. Dr Falk is a lingu...
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Inter-English • SIT ON YOUR HANDS!
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SIT ON YOUR HANDS! You seem unhappy.” “Oh no,” they blurted out in unison. “This is the way Russian students show respect to the teacher. We LOVE this class.”. The most unlikely personages are guilty of this. Bush Sr., in Australia in 1992, raised his fingers in the “V” sign meaning peace. Little did he know that in the Anglo world that gesture was tantamount to giving his audience the finger! Understanding that non-verbal signals differ from culture to culture;. Additionally, don’t trust your inst...
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Inter-English • Posts Tagged ‘language’
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Ldquo; You’re interrupting! Rdquo; is an accusation hurled at me none too seldom in the California Bay Area, my adopted home. I get more offended than the speaker when it happens, because invariably I was just adding something to reinforce what my accuser was saying, not trying to take the floor. I’d call it an interjection, not an interruption. (See Deborah Tannen’s fine. Ldquo;conversational duet”. Focusing on a married couple who honed in on each other’s turns incessantly), to name a few factors...
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Inter-English • Posts Tagged ‘cultural sensitivity’
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SIT ON YOUR HANDS! You seem unhappy.” “Oh no,” they blurted out in unison. “This is the way Russian students show respect to the teacher. We LOVE this class.”. The most unlikely personages are guilty of this. Bush Sr., in Australia in 1992, raised his fingers in the “V” sign meaning peace. Little did he know that in the Anglo world that gesture was tantamount to giving his audience the finger! Understanding that non-verbal signals differ from culture to culture;. Additionally, don’t trust your inst...
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Inter-English • Posts Tagged ‘Intercultural’
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Ldquo; You’re interrupting! Rdquo; is an accusation hurled at me none too seldom in the California Bay Area, my adopted home. I get more offended than the speaker when it happens, because invariably I was just adding something to reinforce what my accuser was saying, not trying to take the floor. I’d call it an interjection, not an interruption. (See Deborah Tannen’s fine. Ldquo;conversational duet”. Focusing on a married couple who honed in on each other’s turns incessantly), to name a few factors...
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Inter-English • STANDARD ENGLISH IS THE STANDARD
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STANDARD ENGLISH IS THE STANDARD. We do not realize how much of our everyday talk consists of non-Standard items like idioms; often we are not even aware of using one. We would do well to become aware, because slipping them into our talk presents a problem for a NNS, whose English language textbook didn’t cover many idioms. With a newcomer, avoid using idioms as much as possible, even if she is fairly fluent. With someone who has been here for a few years, it depends on the situation…. Dr Falk is a lingu...
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Inter-English • Posts Tagged ‘accent discrimination’
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Accents are the NNS’s issue, granted, but accent discrimination is the NS’s. All too often, as soon as he hears an accent a NS will back off, asking for “someone who speaks English”. Sometimes it doesn’t even take actually hearing an accent: there is a study. WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW…. There is little correlation between accent and English comprehension or fluency. Accent retention is related to the age at which the speaker began learning English, how much they identify with their heritage (I’ve li...To inte...
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