Participants experience a critical incident and learn how to use and create others to develop students' language skills. 2 Chinese students are the majority of the international student population in the U.S. Effective teaching requires teachers' understanding of students' cultural background, learning behaviors, and academic expectations. Presenters explore Chinese students' beliefs, anxiety, and English learning styles, and then compare these factors with those of U.S. students of foreign languages. The presenter reports on a pilot study carried out a at multicultural English-medium school in Hungary. Focus is on definitions, theoretical frameworks, working models, commonalties and differences, and problematic issues.
Session closes with audience questions and discussion.
Our students are active participants in the worldwide change in gender roles related to friendship and courtship. Additional activities compare and contrast these to U.S. mainstream patterns. Annotated resources are supplied.