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Links & Learning Ideas for Internet Intercultural Instruction & Exploring!

Site by Scott, an EFL instructor at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan and Intercultural Enthusiast (photo at bottom of page)

InterCultural Insights Using the Internet

I. Explicit Internet Cultural Info Sites

A. Intercultural studies websites.

1. Peace Corps Overall Cross-cultural E-Books (superb!):

All indexed at: http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/publications/

a. Culture Matters E-book (interactively explains key cultural terms like 'monochronic' versus 'polychronic')ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â£ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â£ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬

b. Building Bridges Peace Corps E-Book: (simpler culture activities)

c. Uncommon Journeys: Peace Corps Adventures Across Cultures (U.S. Grade 6-12)

d. Voices from the Field: Reading & Writing about the World, Ourselves & Others (Peace Corps E-Book for U.S. High School Students)

e. Looking at Others and Ourselves

f. Insights from the Field: Understanding Geography, Culture & Service

1.5 Peace Corps MULTIMEDIA www.peacecorps.gov/wws/multimedia/

2. Culture Lessons Online (Social Studies type)

3. Six Patterns of Cultural Differences

4. Tower of English Culture Site (Simplistic view of culture?)

5. Canadian Foreign Affairs Culture Site

6. Global Communication (Business Focus; High Level)

B. Cross-cultural Comparisons

1. Japanese-German-American View

2. Business Etiquette (politeness) for Various Countries

3. Article for Multicultural Caretakers

4. Gestures: Body Language & Nonverbal Communication

(especially focuses on comparing Asian & North American Culture)

5. Humorous Cultural comparisons (some serious stuff here too!)

6. Sexual Double-Standard (why I don't like overuse of 'when in Rome...')

7. Youth Cross-Cultural Comparisons

8. Articles on Cross-Cultural Business Communication

C. Using Videos for Intercultural Insights

1. Great Intercultural Film Site (an excellent site with film suggestions and ready-made questions regarding key cultural terms for these films. Part of: http://www.interculturalrelations.com/ )

2. http://www.english-trailers.com (nice site with film trailers and questions for English learners)

3. One link site to movie scripts followed by 2 good sites:

a. http://www.moviescriptsandscreenplays.com/

b. http://www.simplyscripts.com/

c. http://www.dailyscript.com/movie.html

D. Critical Incidents (Case studies of where/how cross-cultural misunderstanding occur)

1. Student Workshop Culture Stories (Carnegie Mellon University, my alma mater )

2. Finnish Persons Cultural Incident Stories ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â£ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬

3. Short Cross-Cultural Misunderstanding Stories (true, often business-related incidents)

4. Prof. Kensaku Yoshida's article including Critical Incidences in all English near the bottom of the page (Japanese & English elsewhere on site)

E. Japanese Culture (from a Western View):

1. Japan "FAQ" Site (Japan Manners, Culture Photos, FAQ Site,...)

A. Japanese Culture Shock Site (what's different)

B. Japanese Manners and Etiquette (what's polite)

2. http://athome.nime.ac.jp/ (Japan Homestay preparation -excellent!)

3. Interesting Japan Culture Trivia Quiz

4. Japanese Culture Links (open directory)

5. Canadian embassy Japan links

6. Japanese Society/Culture Links (Stanford Univ.)

7. Miscellaneous Japan Links

8. Griffith Univ. Japanese Culture Links

9. Japan Etiquette from japan-guide.com

10. Japan Web (including culture links)

Food for Thought: (Do Japanese learners agree or disagree with these characterizations, and if the latter, how would they characterize their own culture?)

F. Religious & Nonreligious Worldviews

1. Five Worldviews (nice, compact summary of worldviews)

2. Links to Sites on World Religion

3. Diversity of Worldviews

4. Worldviews Explained in more Detail:

a. www.probe.org/docs/w-views.html

b. http://www.probe.org/docs/w-views2.html

c. www.xenos.org/essays/worldvw.htm

II. Interactive Internet Use

A. ELL Chat & Keypal Sites, Language Exchanges & Debate (ELL = English Language Learner)

(Note: I advise my learners to get more out of chat by clicking on one other person and having a private chat as chat with many often seems trivial)

1. "Dave's eslcafe.com Chat Site: (password needed; still not cost)

2. Englishclub.com chat site (nickname only need be typed)

3. 1-Language.com chat site (wait after clicking for around a minute or 2 & then you just need to type a nickname, no password)

4. http://www.study.com Voice & Written Chat for English learners: download free, small software package; free classes (may be difficult to use with some university security systems)

5. mylanguageexchange.com: language exchange connections

6. E-Tandem puts culture exchange into action in numerous ways.

6. Chat-like ELT "Moos" Schmooze University (takes getting used to)

7. Cultural Debates Online:

http://www.teachtsp2.com/cdonline/

B. Articles/Links on Keypal & Chat Exchanges

1. Keypal Article with Links by S. Kathleen & Kenji Kitao

2. Keypal Article with Keypal Links by Tom Robb

3. Cyberspace ESL Links by Tom Robb

4. TESL-EJ Article on Chat in ESL with Links

5. TESL-EJ Online Educator article with links

6. E-pals.com (website for making e-mail keypals)

7. Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections (teachers & learners can find groups or individuals for email exchange)

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