Classroom 2.0 03/08/2016

• Writing Center Staff | Wilk

  Tags: tutoring, ESLlearners, culturaldifferences

  • delightful
  • gut-wrenching descent
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  • severe
  • ittle headway
  • communications gap.
  • made in the paper.
  • struggled
  • in my explanations
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  • cultural factors plague important aspects of ESL communications in the writing center.
  • ack of a shared linguistic knowledge base,
  • ifferences in the educational, rhetorical, and cultural contexts of their language
  • acquisition
  • learning
  • subconsciously incorporating of linguistic forms through reading and listening.
  • consciously assimilating rules and forms through study and instruction.
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  • Understanding those differences helps in formulating beneficial principles of communication
  • rhetorical models are quite diverse
  • In some cultures, one would be considered rude or abrupt to announce one's point immediately.
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  • Socratic dialogue
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  • didactic context
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  • shared assumptions and patterns of language
  • apply a principle they have learned to a grammar error.
  • communicate collaboratively
  • ole as cultural/rhetorical informants as well as collaborators.
  • Cultural differences in body language
  • attitudes and preferences
  • The acceptability of degrees of physical proximity and eye contact differ between cultures.
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  • it down first and allow the student to establish comfortable body positioning
  • ake body language cues from the writer
  • encouraging the student to speak up or ask questions
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  • utor can foster discourse through slightly modified behavior.
  • temptation to address too many issues in one session
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  • effective communications is best achieved by limiting the topics covered within the session
  • English is not the primary language.
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  • The driving force behind limiting is prioritizing.
  • the primary cultural barrier to communication
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  • ack of fluency in conversational dialect
  • Close observation is a key to interpreting and dispelling cultural interference.
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