MULTI-CULTURAL CLASS IN A SECOND LANGUAGE

ACQUISITION.

BY: KELLY FERNÁNDEZ

MULTI-CULTURAL CLASS IN A SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION.

MULTI-CULTURAL CLASS

• Talking about culture is to talk about respect, freedom, justice, opportunity

and equality also is to talk about different way of learning because each

student connect its way of living (culture) with their knowledge including all

the precious and value things that make them different from others

countries around the world and of course the students by itself have all that

knowledge inside and nobody can or could change their identity what I am

trying to say is that when you are faced a classroom with different cultures

you are facing a huge deal because not all your activities will fit them good

you must include activities where includes all about its culture so that you

and the rest of the students can understand them well.

FEELINGS VS CULTURE

• Students who have been born in a culture where is hard to showfeelings are the students who most of the time are introverted andfor you it is a challenge to adapt all your activities into activities thatmay them look interesting.

• Students from Asia and Africa are more likely to be introverted at thebeginning of the class and it depends on the teacher to make themparticipate little by little without pushing them to do something thatfor them is harder than others.

• Students from north and South America are students extroverted forthem are easy to show their feelings to the rest of the class for theyparticipate is a chance to show their feelings and ways of thought.

STRATEGIES IN A MULTI-CULTURAL CLASS

Before beginning a multi-cultural class we have to take into account thefollowings strategies:

• Creating a safe, accepting and successful learning environment for all

• Increasing awareness of global issues

• Strengthening cultural consciousness

• Strengthening intercultural awareness

• Teaching students that there are multiple historical perspectives

• Encouraging critical thinking

• Preventing prejudice and discrimination

NAME (NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORMULTICULTURAL EDUCATION)

By following all those strategies or aspects the students will feel acceptand understood and according to the National Association forMulticultural Education (NAME), multicultural education:

• Helps students develop positive self-image.

• Offers students an equitable educational opportunity.

• Allows multiple perspectives and ways of thinking.

• Combats stereotypes and prejudicial behavior.

• Teaches students to critique society in the interest of social justice.

ACTIVITIES FOR A MULTI-CULTURAL CLASS

Being in a classroom with different cultures means that most of the activitiesshould integrate:

• A diverse reading list that includes the richness of the universal humanexperience across cultures.

• Encourage all the school by showing different cultural activities in itsfunctions of ceremonies.

• Go beyond the textbook by supplementing your curriculum with currentevents and news stories outside the textbook, you can draw parallelsbetween the distant experiences of the past and the world today.

• Creating multicultural projects that require students to choose abackground outside of their own.

CONCLUSION

• To be “Human being” is to deserve respect, freedom, justice,

opportunity and culture means we all are different but the same

human.

• The classroom management presented in our classrooms are

differences between cultures and a mixed ability class where

the students learn in different ways as well their behavior, so

the next work I will explain to you It is concerning to how to

manage a mixed ability class.

RESOURSES

• http://www.teachhub.com/multicultural-education-your-

classroom

• https://es.pinterest.com

• http://adiactiva.com.mx/social/?p=1909

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPutaPc9gB8

• Interested video for multi-cultural class:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhGsy3QUSow