INTERCULTURAL TEACHING

Introduction

Dear studentes welcome to your class webquest, here you will find severl tasks that will lead you to stop, think, create and share about Interculturalism in a language teaching and learning environment.

When we decide to learn a language there is much more in it than the simple sense of repeating and learning vocabulary to read, write, speak and understand. Each one of us relates the language with a culture and a country, this is the spot that calls all of us to go further ahead in teaching and learning languages.

https://youtu.be/PSt_op3fQck

 

Task

Task 1 Think about!!

Before reading the article you will find in these tasks, think about these questions and share your answers.

  1. What is intercultural awareness?
  2. What do you understand by the word "culture"?
  3. What is intercultural learning?

Task 2 Read and share!!

Task 3 Teachers role

  • What can be our role as a teacher of a foreign language? Watch the Ted Talk How Culture Drives Behaviours | Julien S. Bourrelle | TEDxTrondheim (2015) at  https://youtu.be/l-Yy6poJ2zs 
  • Participate in the synchronic class discussion and draw conclusions. 

Task 4 Collaborative Work: Creating an Intercultural Webquest - 

  • Organize in groups of 3 to 4 maximum
  • Create a webquest account in this site https://www.createwebquest.com/
  • Create an Intercultural webquest focused on CORONAVIRUS and HUMAN RIGHTS. 
  • Use as a sample of searching for support activities and resources the material assigned for HUMAN RIGHTS in your schoology classroom.
  • Share your webquest at the discussion session in the Schoology classroom / TEAMS session

 

Process

  1. The teacher presents to the class a brainstorm graph to be filled in with the word culture https://coggle.it/login.
  2. The teacher presents to the class the video https://youtu.be/PSt_op3fQck
  3. The teacher asks for impressions and ideas to be shared among all.
  4. The tteacher opens the class activites leading and explaining the tasks of the webquest.

Evaluation

The evaluation of this webquest will be focused on the use of digital tools to create multimodal resources that will enrich language learning.

CRITERIA

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Speaking
Speaks clearly and distinctly all (100-95%) the time, and mispronounces no words. Speaks clearly and distinctly all (100-95%) the time, but mispronounces one word. Speaks clearly and distinctly most ( 94-85%) of the time. Mispronounces no more than one word. Often mumbles or can not be understood OR mispronounces more than one word. There is a permanent use of Spanish words.
Content
Stays on topic all (100%) of the time.
Stays on topic most (99-90%) of the time.
Stays on topic some (89%-75%) of the time.
It was hard to tell what the topic was.
Had no knowledge of the topic.
ICT TOOLS
Assignment and projects have creativity and originality. Always uses links, videos or images to make assignments more appealing. Makes the most of the resources at hand and makes creative suggestions.
Assignment and projects have creativity and originality. Always uses links, videos or images to make assignments more appealing. Makes a better than an average of the resources at hand and makes creative suggestions.
Assignment and projects have some but insufficient creativity and originality. Occasionally uses links, videos or images to make assignments more appealing. Makes good use of the resources at hand.
Assignment and projects lack creativity and originality. Never uses links, videos or images to make assignments more appealing. Doesn´t make the most of the resources at hand.
Presents no project or assignment.
Language Accuracy
Uses a variety of sentence patterns and grammatical structures in his/her level.
Uses a variety of sentence patterns and grammatical structures in his/her level, but makes some errors.
Uses a variety of structures with frequent errors,or uses basic structures with occasional errors
Uses basic structures, maks frequent errors.
Presents no language accuracy
Reading Comprehension
Identifies main ideas as well as supporting ideas demonstrating appropriate inferences.
Identifies main ideas as well as most of the supporting ideas demonstrating appropriate inferences.
Identifies some of the main ideas as well as some of the supporting ideas demonstrating some mistakes in inferences.
Identifies the least of main ideas as well as the supporting ideas demonstrating many mistakes in inferences.
Presents no comprehension.

 

Credits

British Council web page Interculatural Learning 1 https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/intercultural-learning-1

British Council web page Interculatural Learning 2 https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/intercultural-learning-2

Web page TRUENORTH INTERCULTURAL TEACHING AND LEARNING https://www.truenorthintercultural.com/

How Culture Drives Behaviours | Julien S. Bourrelle | TEDxTrondheim (2015) https://youtu.be/l-Yy6poJ2zs