CCU 5

Citation: Fadeeva., and Kalinin. (2012). The importance of cross-cultural Understanding for EFL students: 144-152.

 

Actually, this article journal is a bit difficult to understand because the researcher did not devided the introduction, literature review, data analysis, result and discussion in a different part. All of those points written in the same part, so I have to find which one is introduction, literature review, data analysis, result and discussion all by myself. However, still I got some new information related to cross-cultura understanding.

Based on this article journal, I learnt that cross-cultural understanding is an important skill to have in order make a good relationship with other people around the world. When we communicate with other people, it is not only require a good speaking skill, but also we need to understand their culture as well, so that we will not making mistake when we communicate with other people with different culture. In other words, Successful cross-cultural communication assumes knowledge of a foreign language and foreign culture. because of that reason, teaching cross-cultural understanding in ESL students is really needed because they come from different background and different culture.

When I become a teacher or a university lecturer someday, I’ll teach my students about cross-cultural understanding because they have to know culture from different country so that when they go abroad, study abroad or just have friends from other country, they will manage to communicate with them without saying or doing something unappropriately that will hurt their feeling.