5/23/22 Week 6:

Response to:  Individualism vs collectivism how is working in English TESOL? 

After of watched the video from Brother Ivers (teacher in a BYU Idaho) when he is explaining Individualism vs Collectivism in the North American, Japanese, and Filipino students. There is shown me concerning assessing the behavior and needs of my future culturally diverse students. In class, we go to see each culture, comportment, and thinking; and we will identify what students are individualistic and what are collectives, according to their origin countries.  

Students that of course, they will go to have in class misunderstandings and problems by their origin and education acquired in other cultures. As teachers, we need to board these situations, first, we need to have clear where are our students from, whether their culture is individual or collectivist thinking.  Second, we need to create activities in our lesson plans that permit the students can understand they have differences and some similarities in their cultures.

Well, will we overcome the problem? In my concept with children and teenagers through the adaptation process to a new culture and language probably 100%. But what happens with adult people?  They have in their mind, formation from their culture. I have a friend from Thailand, who is learning and improving her English, and I can see the teacher striving and giving support to her so she can apply some American individualism thinking; because in each activity working with a partner or teamwork, she always apologies for the mistakes of others, and the teacher explains to her courteously: It's okay, it's not your mistake, but we can use it to learn and improve in the English class. Then, in that case, adult students need more time, and they can adapt, but always conserve their culture, with the time is a fusion of cultures and thinking.