The culture is an integrated pattern of human knowledge,

belief and behavior that depends on the society in which we are

involved.

For a long time, there has been a clash of cultures because of the differences existed between the countries in its way of thinking or its behavior.

This fact is affecting all the areas, but mostly, the educational one.

IMPORTANCE OF THE PROBLEM

The knowledge of cultural understanding in the post-secondary education is relevant to change the reality in which we are living.

It might be accomplishing by

learning from other societies the things that make them so

successful.

The lazy practical way of thinking of Venezuelans in terms

of study, work and self-accomplishment will be reduced

in most cases.

Venezuela is a country which has all the resources and natural wonders to be one of those countries that are known around the whole world as a model example to be followed by other countries.

What we need is to be aware of our own faults and mistakes to get a personal improvement in order to understand the fact that has to be with a change in our mentality and the way that we see things.

Georgessy Barmaksoz

IMPORTANCE OF THE TOPICOur country is passing through many problems in social, political and

economic aspects and it is concerning to see how it seems to be getting worse.

Many would think this free-fall we are having as a society is due to

government issues mainly, but I think the problem we are facing now is not

external but internal.

It is our idiosyncrasy and way of thinking that leads us to the

underdevelopment.

As the author Manuel Barroso could say in his book “Self-esteem, ecology or catastrophe”, every revolution starts with an INNER

STRENGTH and that strength is what leads us to a change.

I think every Venezuelan person should wonder about the reasons of our current issues. It is not blaming others; it is finding what is wrong with us,

questioning our moral and personal growth. Our marginality is eating us away (not material poorness but mental one).

Education seems to be affected too. We see that in students’ attitudes towards studying and the lack of self-achievement.

The foundation of a country is education but and

education without good standards isn’t worthy.

Is It an important topic? Definitely!

Changing our inner strength for one with more values, moral and

personal growth will solve our problems even in the

educational field.

As future leaders we are, it is our responsibility to care for the country we

are living in. Do we want evolution for our country?

There is no evolution without personal growth. Dannally Torrealba

“We believe necessary an

approximation to other cultures’

educational backgrounds and

mentalities that allows students to discuss and

compare in order to emulate features that

encourage their academic improvement

and ultimately their self-growth”

IMPORTANCE OF THE TOPIC

The importance of our

project lies in the forming

role constituting the base for

our educational approach.

Given the intense language-learning

setting to which English major students

at U.C are exposed to on a daily basis it

is quite normal, as time goes by, to

neglect

cultural aspects as we strive to meet

more demanding levels of proficiency.

This is, without a doubt, a

negative factor when it comes to

reinforcing our trans-cultural

education with understanding

of culture itself.

Following to it, there is often

confliction between the foreign

learning methods and a

Venezuelan-culture-adjusted

mentality regarding study habits,

sometimes even interfering with

appropriate language acquisition.

Besides that, the important role of

language teachers as cultural

intermediaries is totally disregarded or

what is more, prevented from due to no

knowledge on the area.

In response to that, for the sake of students’ self-growth and a change of mentality that acknowledges accomplishment as a priority, we put forward our project proposal.Mauricio Espinoza