Event time:
Thursday, November 7, 2019 - 12:45pm
Location:
Dow Hall - CLS Library
370 Temple Street
New Haven, CT
06511
Event description:
Developing Interculturality Guidelines for Richard U. Light Fellows and East Asian Language Curricula at Yale
Angela Lee-Smith, Ninghui Liang and Hiroyo Nishimura from the East Asian Language and Literature Department will present the project they have developed during the Instructional Innovation Workshop 2018. The project aimed to develop and enhance Interculturality skills using modified Can-Do Statements from the 2017 NCSSFL and ACTFL’s Intercultural Communication Proficiency Benchmarks.
Without proper guidance in culturally appropriate interactions in different contexts (Byram, Nicholas, and Stevens, 2001; Deardorff, 2006; Mikk, Cohen, and Paige, 2009), students often can not utilize their study-abroad opportunity to the fullest, resulting in a disappointing experience. The modified Can-Do Statement includes the more appropriate and suitable statements, incorporating Chinese, Japanese and Korean cultures. It can be implemented in class before and during their study-abroad so that students can be better prepared and are more aware of cultural expectations, which will lead them to a successful experience.
Based on these modified Can-Do Statements, the three lectors will be developing specific learning activities that can be used in class to foster students’ intercultural communicative competence specifically for Chinese, Japanese and Korean students, with the CLS Fellowship next spring.
Please email maria.ideliu@yale.edu to RSVP for this event.