10/16/21; W05 Blog: Culture Miscommunication

 

10/16/21; W05 Blog: Culture Miscommunication

Miscommunication between cultures causes a lot of difficulties and terrible things. And so, it is very important to understand that miscommunication is always a great possibility. Now, a very common miscommunication is that for example, people from Latin America tend to be very, very kind and they don't want to hurt your feelings and in America unfortunately people are not that conscious about not hurting feelings.

Cultural differences causes behavior and personality differences like body language, thinking, communication, manners which leads to miscommunication. And how culture affect learning English, in vocabulary, for example, people should learn the grammar rules, the words, spelling, and the pronunciation in English classes but only through studies you will learn about the cultural of the English language.

The teacher should try to connect the students with new cultural realities. We can speak of an interaction process where the student develops their own interpretations from relationships between the mother's culture and that of the language she learns, their target language. As a result of these interactions, cultural awareness is fostered rational, dynamic, critical and reflective.

Teachers value more to provide information about daily life and customs, diverse cultural manifestations such as literature, music, theater etc. and those objectives with a lower level of attention are those related to develop a greater understanding of the student's own culture.

Teachers have a lot of difficulties when teach cultural aspects in language class. Lack of time, type of curriculum, lack of appropriate material and a lack of training preparation are aspects that we have to highlight to try to strengthen them.