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Cultural Sensitivity in a Colombian Classroom - TEFL Blog
Fri, 01 May 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Cultural Sensitivity in a Colombian Classroom
A resource I found invaluable for this essay was the website Cyborlink (2019a), a reference provided in the TEFL Young Learners course (ITTT, 2019). The TEFL course (Unit 6) discusses how cultural considerations are important when teaching abroad. This includes cultural sensitivity when interacting with the young learners themselves, as well as in interacting with parents and school staff (administration/teachers).
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Latin-American Culture
English in Colombia
The usage of titles
Conversational taboos
Relation to different age groups
Individualism and gender peculiarities
Other considerations
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Liza is a translator, freelancer and ESL teacher from Russia. She had been teaching in a Chinese bilingual school for more than two years and recently moved to Thiland to run her blog about teaching and freelance job.
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Relevance of Slang and Idioms in the Classroom - TEFL Blog
Tue, 18 Jun 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Relevance of Slang and Idioms in the Classroom
With a flash of exasperation my Colombian friend, José, inquired, "Why do you always say it like that?" I paused unsure to what he was referring. José continued, "We're the same age and you've lived here for months but you still greet me like I'm a long-lost grandfather." As I prepare to teach English abroad, this interaction forced me to confront the question of slang and idioms (SI) in the classroom. Is it appropriate to teach slang and idioms to learners of English as a foreign language (LEFL)?
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Reasons to Teach SI
Definition of Slang
Slang in Everyday Life
Problem Faced by Teachers
How to Teach Slang
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How My Passion For The Spanish Language Made Me Become An English Teacher Abroad - TEFL Blog
Mon, 11 Mar 2019 Linda Dunsmore
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How My Passion For The Spanish Language Made Me Become An English Teacher Abroad
As a native English speaker, my first major foreign language experience began in 8th grade, where I had the option of studying either Spanish or French. I chose Spanish, as I'd always been drawn to the language and Latin American culture, and hoped to one day live in a Spanish speaking country. I studied the language throughout high school, but in the years afterward, it wasn't much of a priority and wasn't something I used on a regular basis.
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