WORKING IN MY PARTNERS COUNTRY Universidad de Oviedo, Spain

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WORKING IN MY PARTNERS COUNTRY(Universidad de
Oviedo, Spain)

• Multicultural Education for European
  Citizenship
• Ceské Budejovice, March 2008

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• 1. Meet students from other European countries to
  learn about different countries
• 2. Provide opportunities to communicate in English

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LEARNING METHOD

• Tandem learning
• In tandem language learning, two people with
  different mother tongues cooperate to help
  improve each others knowledge of the new
  language and culture.
• Email communication

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ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION

• According to anthropologists Edward T. Hall and
  Mildred Reed Hall the single greatest barrier
  to business success is the one erected by
  culture". Students from different nationalities
  will be working together via email to exchange
  information about working in their partners
  country

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ACTIVITY STAGES

• Topic introduction Cultural misunderstanding
• Class work students elaborate lists with 10
  pieces of advice to avoid misundersstanding for
  the foreign professional.
• Individual work exchange of email messages to
  find out about email partners peculiarities

• In teams students who have worked about same
  country meet and draw conclusions
• Each team will do an oral presentation of results
  to class
• For evaluation purposes each student will write a
  Primary Research Project on findings.

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If you are interested

• Send an email message to aojanguren_at_uniovi.es
• Deadline for joining the initiative 31st March
• Deadline for handing in/sending projects 31st May