Fun English and Spanish with Perla

  6/01/22 Week 7: Response to:  How are Culture and Psychology affect the mind? Brother Ivers (BYU Idaho) explains in his class, that there are many different races under many different circumstances under many different stereotypes and ideologies that affect the mind in each culture. I am from a culture different the North American culture, but fortunately, in my home, there aren't elements of my culture that are irrationally causing me to have low self-esteem. On the contrary, each challenge that I had to overcome to adapt to this new culture has made me stronger. But looking at my children, I can see some differences between them; my older son arrived here at 16 years old, and the younger of 4 years old. The older is something shy person and feels shame for many things. The younger one is outgoing and doesn't feel shame in front of the majority of things, he has a completely North American culture.  In my culture, exists some stereotypes, for example, if you are learn...

  6/01/22 Week 7: Response to:  Differences in Manner between students in the TESOL Classroom? After of watched the video class from brother Ivers (BYU Idaho) I think we will have some potential challenges and successes in a TESOL classroom, for example, probably the majority of our students will be from Center and South America, and others from Ukraine, Vietnam, Africa, Chine, etc.  Can you imagine, what happens if a student from South America (woman) to introduce with another student from the Middle East (Man) and shakes his hand?  You have in your class a Cross-Culture issue with Manners.  What can be the success in the situation? The teacher can explain to the students, what that situation means for each one. For Hispanic people are normal to shake their hand and say: Nice to meet you (between men and women), unlike those of the Middle East, which is disrespectful, and only use between family members. Using the situation, we can complement the class, the stu...