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The_Prodiigy
Joined: 01 Apr 2006
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| The way (not manner) in which the lesson is handled is significant. |
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Glenski
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN
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| Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 5:35 am Post subject: Re: International tensions and how they affect your classes. |
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| Gary B wrote: |
Wha'z up?
I was wondering how the international tensions between Iraq and the U.S. and North Korea and the U.S. has affected your classes, especially for those teaching overseas? I'm currently in the States and I'm sure the slant that we get from the media is completely different than probably anywhere else in the world. I'm just curious if and how the current situation in international relations, or should I say the current disfunctional international relations has affected your classes as well as how you are perceived in the country you're currently teaching in? |
There has been no effect whatsoever here in Japan, in my classes anyway.
My students at the university can barely string together simple sentences, so they aren't about to try discussing anything more complex than "What did you do last weekend?" (and the answer is usually, "sleep").
If you have students high enough in fluency to carry on a complex issue such as the war in Iraq, perhaps the students should be the ones doing the teaching!
How am I perceived? American, stooge, token foreign teacher, the guy with the difficult classes, the foreigner with a Japanese wife and kid, etc. Nobody makes any mention of international tensions or relations with regard to me. If the subject is even close to being broached, I tell them I think Bush is a cowboy President and that I don't agree with him. The "discussion" dies there, as they realize that not all Americans back their President. We all laugh and move on. |
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
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Location: Mexico City
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Wow, some piece of necromancy...this thread is a piece of ESL Cafe heritage...it just ended with the start of the current Iraq war.
Over here in Mexico, local politics and tensions are a bigger minefield than international ones, when it comes to class topics. Bring up the Iraq war, or terrorism for example, and people don't have a whole lot to say about it I find. It's as if it's just too far away to be important. |
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