TweetAttached to this post is a packet of materials I helped create for students at the community college I worked at before I moved to Russia. It is designed primarily as a series of reading lessons with additional activities for summarizing and it utilizes the rhetorical structure of American newspaper articles as its basis for [...]
TweetFormat: Workshop/Plenary Time: 45 minutes Title: “On NOT Teaching Culture: Giving Students Tools for a Future without Borders” Target Students: Intermediate to advanced, any age group When teaching “culture,” many EFL teachers focus on the simple academic learning of various traditions, rules of behavior and values of one or more groups of people. In this [...]
TweetFormat: Workshop Time: 45 minutes Title: “Fun with Prosody: Creative Explorations of Intonation in English” Target Students: Low-intermediate to advanced, any age group Much of our communication involves the successful interpretation of intonation. Often, a listener who is a non-native speaker may understand every word of an utterance, but still misunderstands it because of a [...]
TweetThis week in my two intercultural communication classes at my university, I taught students about prosody, or intonation and timing, in spoken discourse. I have found that many of the skills of intonation and timing are similar between Russians and Americans, with only a few exceptions. This would make adjustment for non-native speakers not as [...]
