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Saturday 12:30 - 1:20 PM
Cosmos A, Olympic ParkTel
Culture in the Classroom 1--Seeing ourselves differently 
William Holden III
JALT
 

Over the last decade or so, the need for integration of cultural
awareness with language teaching has become widely acknowledged.  While much effort to accomplish this has so far been directed at assisting learners to come to terms with the culture of the English speaking Western culture, and at sensitizing Western instructors to the cultural background of learners and its influence on second language learning style and interaction, less attention seems to have been paid to the role that cultural presuppositions play in student-student interaction.  This
workshop is designed to encourage participants to examine the assumptions they hold about their own culture and the ways in which these assumptions may color their perception of members of other cultures.