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		<title>intercultural training for pre-service teachers &#8211; a favour</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 04:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Searching the Cambridge CELTA syllabus for &#8216;culture&#8217;, I discover the following. Unit 1 – Learners and teachers and the teaching and learning context 1.1 Cultural, linguistic and educational backgrounds Demonstrate an understanding of the range of backgrounds and experiences that adult learners bring to their classes A quick scoot around the Trinity CertTESOL site yields similar results&#8230;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>culture and the language teacher</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 06:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Written as a NEST, working in a foreign country, but hopefully of interest to all) How did you learn cultural awareness? Assuming you did, of course&#8230;. For an industry which pitches different cultures together with such force and frequency as ELT, there is very little teacher training devoted to cross-cultural communication. On the CELTA? Sorry, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>which english? why your opinion is irrelevant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wife and children abed, the teacher was scratching his way through a stack of conversation transcriptions that his students had handed in earlier that day. &#8220;Hi, how are you&#8221; began one. &#8220;So-so&#8221; was the reply. The teacher lifted his pen to strike through the unnatural phrase in blood red ink &#8211; after all, don&#8217;t we native [...]]]></description>
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		<title>culture and reading skills &#8211; can (should) we teach both?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post I mentioned an article I had read on &#8216;nativised&#8217; reading materials &#8211; readings which are adapted to include local (and familiar) names, places and foods (for example) whilst retaining the vocabulary and grammar structures of the original. In the article, the researchers took a story based in New York and transplanted [...]]]></description>
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