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Teaching Culture Through Social Situations In English As A Second Language Classes, Irina Andreeva
Teaching Culture Through Social Situations In English As A Second Language Classes, Irina Andreeva
Master's Projects and Capstones
To develop communicative competence, second language learners in addition to mastering linguistic, strategic, structural and discoursal aspects of the language, have to acquire sociolinguistc rules and conventions. The project sought to design a handbook to teach communicative competence along with sociolinguistic competence, as second language learners can never succeed in being fluent speakers in the target language without developing both competences. The handbook includes series of lessons to promote a deeper appreciation of how culture and language interact.
From Culture Shock To Cultural Adaptation: A Workbook For International Students, Gregory R. Sugajski
From Culture Shock To Cultural Adaptation: A Workbook For International Students, Gregory R. Sugajski
Master's Projects and Capstones
San Francisco’s complex communal tapestry can lead to cultural disorientation, dislocation, and unfamiliarity for recently arrived F-1 and M-1 international students, a series of events that when related to problematic adaptation issues and negative adjustment implementations is known as culture shock. Easing the adaptation process for this population is considered to be of academic importance from a progressive, economic, sociocultural, and intercultural perspective. Thus, the organizing purpose and principle of the project is to enable cultural adaptation for students who reside in San Francisco by instilling in them proximal, behavioral, and situational safety awareness. The project takes the form of …