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Writing In The Contact Zone: Three Portraits Of Reflexivity And Transformation, Laurene L. Christensen Jan 2002

Writing In The Contact Zone: Three Portraits Of Reflexivity And Transformation, Laurene L. Christensen

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Culture is at the core of language teaching. Because classrooms are contact zones (Pratt 1991), teachers must have a well-developed sense of their own intercultural competence so that they may better facilitate the cross-cultural discovery inherent in language teaching. Teacher preparation programs need to provide opportunities for new teachers to increase their intercultural awareness. The purpose of this research was to qualitatively understand the experiences of pre-service teachers in a required culture-learning class at a large urban university. Specifically, the focus of this study was the completion of a mini-ethnography project designed to give the students a cross-cultural exchange. Since …


Counseling In Allied Health Techniques Of Instruction: A Career Process, Robert David Mills May 1979

Counseling In Allied Health Techniques Of Instruction: A Career Process, Robert David Mills

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A Professional Paper on "Techniques of Instruction" as seen through the eyes of this writer, to Portland State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Education.