5/30/22 Week 7:

Response to:  How are the Cross-Culture students in the TESOL Classroom?

The video class from brother Ivers (BYU Idaho) has shown me how I need to be prepared to teach my students from different cultures and manage the situation front a cross-culture. Because as teachers we will have challenges in our English class TESOL, misunderstanding, embarrassing situations, and different paradigms. For example, I remember in my English Class from Adult School Education in South Carolina, the teacher was teaching a lesson about creating questions in English, students from Mexico ask the teacher: Elena explains to me why I need to change the position of the verb be? The teacher immediately and directly with a normal voice tone answered the student: “I am Miss Elena”, please, always when you will talk with teachers, principals, etc. It is more respectful with the person, say: Miss, Mrs., Mr., before his name.  The student was uncomfortable, for he was thinking the teacher was rude and proud. But only was a paradigm, in South Carolina the people talk directly and have a strong expression on their faces, is the culture there; also, is a requirement to answer to the teachers: Yes ma'am, Yes Sir.

Well, what is the matter? In my concept is a priority to explain to the new students the rules in class, and what basic protocol social there is in of new culture.  Of course, the students are learning the new culture but is a multicultural custom and polite, to address a person you have just met, or is your teacher, authority, or boss; interpose before to the name: Mr., Miss, Mrs.

As teachers, we can support the students and teaches them through the lesson plan in a general way, topics that include courtesy in the class and in different places, so they can know how to handle situations in daily life.