The
main purpose of this article journal is to provide some communicative
activities to enhance the
cross-cultural awareness of Japanese university students whose language levels
range from beginner to intermediate. Teaching cross-cultural awareness to
students of foreign language who hve never going abroad can be challenging
because they do not know about the culture by theirselves. However, still,
there are some activities that will enhance their cultural awareness : e-mail
exchange, guest speaker interview, and video project.
E-mail exchange is an activity which students can
communicate through e-mail with their friends and teacher. They have to send a
message and respon it if they get received the message from their friends or
teacher. Guest speaker interview is an activity which students interviewing
their friends who have ever go to another country so that the students got
information about the culture of another country. Video project is an activity
which the students make a five-to-seven-minute video interview with a NES
living in Japan or nonnative English speaker who has lived in another culture.
Based on this article journal, those three
activities are appropriate to enhance the cross-cultural awareness of the
students. their response to these activities has been positive. They can
develop their cultural awareness as well as their speaking skill. When I become
a teacher someday, I’ll definitely use video project as one of my activities to
teach cross-cultural awareness in my classroom because I think the students
will excited when they have to do such kind of activity.
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