My Experience of the Exchange

Description of my feelings, knowledge and actions during the Exchange.

 

A. Feelings

• Ways in which my curiosity and interest were aroused: (examples that made me re-consider my own culture)

• Moments in which I felt uncomfortable: (what made me feel like this, with particular examples if possible)

• Moments when I felt comfortable:(what made me feel like this, with particular examples if possible)

 

B. Knowledge

• The most important things I learnt about family life and/or life at school.

• The most important things I have learnt about the country, the nation, the state of the target language.

• What I have learnt about customs and conventions of talking with people (topics which interest them, topics to avoid, how to greet people and take leave from them).

 

C. Actions

• Incidents or problems which I resolved by explaining different cultures to people, helping them see the points of view of different cultures and how misunderstandings can happen.

• Examples of times when I have had to ask questions and work out my own answers (from ask for clarification to understanding cultural customs and beliefs)

 

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A self-assessment of my Intercultural Experience

 

A. Interest in other people's way of life

 

• I am interested in other people's experience of daily life, particularly those things not usually presented to outsiders through the media. Example:

• I am also interested in the daily experience of a variety of social groups within a society and not only the dominant culture. Example:

 

B. Ability to change perspective

• I have realised that I can understand other cultures by seeing things from a different point of view and by looking at my culture from their perspective. Example:

 

C. Ability to cope with communicating in a different language with a different culture

• I am able to cope with a range of reactions people from different cultures may have to the way I express myself and what I say. Example:

 

D. Knowledge about another country and culture

• I know some important facts about the other culture and about the country, state and people that I did not know before. Example:

• I know how to engage in conversation with people of the other culture and maintain a conversation. Example:

 

E. Knowledge about intercultural communication

• I know how to resolve misunderstandings which arise from people's lack of awareness of the view point of another culture. Example of misunderstanding and solution:

• I know how to discover new information and new aspects of the other culture for myself. Example:

 

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Self-Assessment of my Language Learning

 

Please provide specific examples of the following:

 

• words, expressions I learned in English:

• improvements in my pronunciation of certain words or intonation:

• improvements in my listening:
• changes in the way I speak Italian to non-native speakers:
• words, expressions I learned doing the wiki project:
• improvements in my reading doing the wiki project:
• improvements in my writing doing the wiki project:

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