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Yiran Liao
cultural exchange between China and other countries. Also, we had been
it was not easy for me to engage all the students. In this essay, I will explain
thus the classroom was like a salad bowl in which many different cultures
Chinese for them, it was the first time I noticed that people’s behavior can
found that western students were more active and willing to speak with
different students while eastern students preferred to just speak with the
different attitudes. For example, once I taught the facial parts and designed
the words they have learned in their own missing people notice at first, and
then share their information with the group members and to find the
to follow the procedures and try to work as a team, while some western
students thought it was an interesting activity, the whole class was out of
before they answered it, while the American students and Italians were
and asked them to make a conversation. In order to find out how they will
action when they met difficulties, I gave them two new words that they had
never been taught before. Comparatively, I found that when the eastern
students noticed the two new words, they tried to use dictionary to figure
out the meanings by themselves, while the western students were directly
Compared with the western students, eastern students were quieter and
more introverted in the class. They preferred to take notes rather than
speaking out their thoughts. As for the western students, they liked stating
their views frankly without thinking more about other people’s feelings.
language class are diversity, so the teacher should observe carefully and be
out targeted teaching methods with students who are under different
cultural background, but I will try to find the balance and similarities