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World Languages

World Languages. World Languages Standards. Communication Cultures Connections Comparisons Communities. Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products , practices and perspectives of the culture studied and make comparisons with their own culture.

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World Languages

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  1. World Languages

  2. World Languages Standards Communication Cultures Connections Comparisons Communities Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products, practices and perspectives of the culture studied and make comparisons with their own culture.

  3. World Languages The role of language across the programme continuum is crucial in nurturing the full development of each learner and fostering the values of diversity, international-mindedness and intercultural awareness. Towards a Continuum of International Education p. 27

  4. World Languages Standard 3.2: Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures. - ACTFL National Standards What information or viewpoints are only available to people who speak the language?

  5. Haiku Wild thistle blossoms seen even by the eyes of the garden-less poor.

  6. What is Haiku? Form: 5 – 7 – 5 Topic: Nature Feeling: evokes tranquility, compassion Contrast Kigo: a word that indicates the season Engo: associated words rising from the same concept, similar to our similes and metaphors Kake kotoba: a pivot word employed in two senses, even three on rare occasions. "The pivot word shades into the pun, and some Japanese poems have so many puns that they may have two or more quite dissimilar meanings.” - Rexroth

  7. Intercultural literacy requires a so-called ‘crisis of engagement’ – anauthentic cross-cultural experience - Mark Heyward (2002)

  8. An out-of-countryBathroom Experience

  9. How to use a squat toilet http://www.richardbarrow.com/thai-culture/how-to-use-a-squat-toilet-2.html

  10. India – pay per use public toilet by chefcookie on Flickr

  11. San Jose, Costa Rica

  12. Guatemala

  13. Aqaba Bejing, China dorm room

  14. France by xiaozhuli

  15. Understand that people, with their differences, can also be right Or Help to create a better and more peaceful world

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