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--Reading the textbook and other related materials (assigned by the teacher or found/searched by you upon the teacher’s request)
--Regular attendance of the classes
--To help you become a better intercultural communicator. You will learn this partly by studying more about the process of intercultural communication and also about the factors that affect that process. However, even more important, you will develop new skills and thinking habits that will help you make sense of foreign cultures and their people, especially of things Westerners do which may seem strange, puzzling, or even bad.
strange. I decided to go to a park, and there I met several Chinese students. They started talking with me in Chinese, and I was happy to finally have a chance to practice speaking in Chinese with real Chinese people, and maybe also to make some Chinese friends. At first they asked me some pretty easy questions about how long I had been in China, what country I was from, and so forth. But then the questions started getting more complicated and harder for me to understand and answer; also, sometimes when I was struggling to answer a question the students would laugh. That kind of bothered me, and I felt like they were making fun of me. Then one of the students said something that I thought was a little weird. “Wo men zuo pengyou ba.” I mean, I did originally hope to make friends with them, but I didn’t expect someone I hardly knew to just say “Let’s be
--To help you learn more about the cultures of Western nations. The textbook pays special attention to the culture of the United States, not only because it is the largest English-speaking country, but also because its culture is different from China’s in a number of especially interesting ways.
--If possible, make friends with one or two foreigners to gain some personal experiences in cross-cultural communication.
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Dear Fran, Yesterday was my first day in China, and it was a little bit
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--To help you rove your English, especially your ability to discuss and explain ideas, and your ability to talk about culture in English.
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Friends!” That seemed a little strange and rather pushy. BY that point, I was feeling a little
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-- To familiarize you with basic concepts of intercultural communication. The textbook introduces many of the basic concepts of intercultural communication, assuming that the more students understand about the various factors that affect intercultural communication, the more aware they will be of the role these factors play in influencing how they interpret the behavior of foreigners.