Friday 3:00 - 3:50 PM
Wild Rose
Taiwan Universtity Students Actively Embrace Cross-cultural Experiential Education Classroom 

Recently, Taiwan and overseas Chinese students, at the National Taiwan Normal University's Department of English, embraced the model of  "experiential education" within their Language and Culture classroom. Grounded in a principle, which firmly acknowledges previous academic training and experience, students actively engaged in focussed and student and centered activities, which supported their course's purpose,  goals, and objectives, while fostering new learning. This workshop session will be divided into four parts; an explanation of the National Taiwan Normal University students cross-cultural classroom learning experience, instruction about the experiential learning model, participant involvement with the model and the processing of their experience. 

This session will provide participants with opportunities to learn about and to become actively involved with the four stages of the experiential learning model. Participants will experience new learning through specifically designed cross-cultural activities, utilizing the traditional Chinese classroom methodologies of leadership and peer assistance, in conjunction with the model for experiential learning. 
In addition, the presenter will provide participants with cross-cultural classroom materials and activities.