TweetDownload presentation here. In this presentation, I shared my impressions of living as a foreigner in Russia and working as a member of faculty at a Russian university. In it, I first shared relevant details of higher education in the United States which helped to shape the context within which I garnered my understanding of [...]
TweetHere is the link to a presentation I wrote about the history and culture of Alabama, my native state. I gave it first at the Arkhangelsk American Corner in April, 2011.
TweetFormat: Workshop Time: 45 minutes Title: “Register, Face and Email: A Writing Lesson for the Electronic Generation” Target Students: Intermediate to advanced One of the most important skills our students learn is how to use language differently in different situations and with different people. Speeches are not like telephone conversations. Essays are not like newspaper [...]
TweetFormat: Workshop Time: 45 minutes Title: “Negotiating Face and Making Requests: Speech Changes and Imposition” Target Students: Intermediate to advanced One of the most important skills our students learn is how to use language differently in different situations and with different people. Speeches are not like telephone conversations. Essays are not like newspaper articles. And [...]
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 [...]
