Cultural Awareness in the EFL Workplace: Balancing Globalization and Localization

1. Cultural Awareness in the EFL Workplace: Balancing Globalization and Localization CULI National Seminar 19/20 November 2012 Steven Graham Khon Kaen University International College

2. Introduction • The many faces of ELT • Culture • Hofstede • Embree • Komin • Persons • Discussion

3. The Many Faces of ELT • Teaching • Teacher Training • Lecturing • Research • Leadership and Management • Writing • Publishing President IATEFL Voices 229 November-December 2012

4. Culture • Tilling the soil, cultivation • Training or refining of the mind, civilisation • Collective ways of acting, thinking and feeling • Values and practices Hofstede (2008)

5. ความรับผิดชอบ ความรับผิดชอบ = responsibility ความ = something รับ = given ผิด = don't ชอบ = like Something given to you that you don't like.

7. Hofstede (1980) (2001) • Low or high power distance • Individualism or collectivism • Masculinity or femininity • Strong or weak uncertainty avoidance • Long or short term orientation

10. Komin (1990) • Ego • Grateful relationship • Smooth interpersonal relationship • Flexibility and adjustment • Religio-psychical • Education and competence • Interdependence • Fun-pleasure • Achievement-task

11. Embree (1950) • A loosely structured social system • Individualistic behavior • To tell a lie is praiseworthy • Choei • Insecurity of property • Lack of qualified teachers and resources • Neatness • Sanuk

12. Persons (2008) • Nata • Kiat • Saksi • Chuesiang • Barami

13. Persons

14. Discussion • People are individuals • Assimilation of culture over time • Erosion of peripheral values • Core values

15. Discussion • Task vs harmony • Kraeng cai • Choei • Management training • The need for consultation and better lines of communication (Hoy 2009)

16. Cultural Awareness in the EFL Workplace: Balancing Globalization and Localization Steven Graham Khon Kaen University International College steven@kku.ac.th