Võ, Thị Hoàng Yến
When
teachers and students come from different cultures, many perplexities
can arise. These can be due to different social positions of teachers
and students in the two societies, to differences in expected
teacher/student and student/student interaction, or to differences in
the relevance of the curricula of the two societies (Hofstede).
Therefore, it has been assumed that a teacher must be aware of
socio-cultural differences to operate effectively in the classroom. This
paper begins with cultural aspects of individualist and collectivist
countries and influences of collectivist cultures in EFL classrooms. It
also shows a number of cultural explanations of communication avoidance
in EFL classrooms, especially inChina,JapanandVietnam. Finally, the
paper presents some difficulties native speaking teachers encounter when
teaching English in EFL contexts and potential solutions to these
difficulties.
| Title: | Cultural Differences: A Barrier to Native English Teachers in English as a Foreign Language Contexts |
| Other Titles: | Sựkhác biệt văn hóa: Rào cản đối với giáo viên tiếng Anh bản ngữ giảng dạy tiếng Anh như một ngoại ngữ |
| Authors: | Võ, Thị Hoàng Yến |
| Keywords: | Cultural differences;Confucian Worldview;Language Learning and Teaching |
| Issue Date: | 2014 |
| Publisher: | H. : ĐHQGHN |
| Series/Report no.: | Vol 30;No 1 |
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