Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Shared Language
2017 GIPS Summer Institute
Roll-a-Question
1 - Introduce yourself.
2 - Describe the meaning or story behind your name (first, middle or
last).
3 - If you were fluent in another language, what language(s) would you
speak and why?
4 - What are some of the key challenges communicating with people for
whom English is a new language?
5 - What are you hoping to learn from this session?
6 - Share a success from this school year.
Whats in a Name?
Naming Customs from Around the World
English is a difficult language
Learning Goals
Influences others
Communication
A dynamic process in which people attempt to share their
thoughts with other people through the use of symbols.
Source
Encoding
Message
Channel
Receiver
Decoding
Feedback
Noise
Between what I think
what I want to say
what I think I am saying
what I say
what you want to hear
what you hear
what you think you understand
what you want to understand
and what you understand
there are at least 9 chances
that we will not understand each other.
Culture
A set of human-made
objective and subjective
elements that in the past
have increased the
probability of survival and
resulted in satisfaction for
participants in an
ecological niche, and thus
became shared among
those who could
communicate with each
other because they had a
common language and
they lived in the same time
and place.
Iceberg Concept of Culture
Surface Culture: most easily seen
emotional level - low
Be patient.
Listen for key words, main ideas.
Watch for nonverbal cues that they do not understand.
Do not interrupt, speak over, or finish their sentences.
Ask for Feedback
Expand your knowledge about culture and the various dimensions of culture
represented in Grand Island.