The Ministry of Higher and secondary education of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Activity

1. Divide into five groups

2. Prepare a role play about intercultural communication.

3. Students need to act conversation among different culture representatives.

4. Each group express behavior and characters of intercultural person.

5. Teacher should assess the activity and say mistakes.

Game

Playing Kahoot!

https://create.kahoot.it/share/intercultural-communication/022ef60f-4df1-43e6-9e72-2872646457a9

Questions (10)
1 - Quiz
What do individualistic cultures value?
20sec
2 - Quiz
What is intercultural communication?
30sec
3 - Quiz
Which type of culture would say: "You must do what is best for the family?"
20sec
4 - Quiz
In the United States, interaction with people from diverse cultures interact because of...
30sec
5 - Quiz
Which country is individualistic?
20sec
6 - Quiz
Working independently represents which type of culture?
20sec
7 - Quiz
Which country represents a collective culture?
20sec
8 - Quiz
Which type of culture would represent an employer picking an "employee of the month?"
20sec
9 - Quiz
Imagine working a second job to support your family. What type of culture does this exemplify?
20sec
10 - Quiz
What do collective cultures value?
IV. CONCLUSION

People who are socialized within the same cultural community are able to understand each other since they share the same culture including rules, regulations, customs and so on. However, when communicating with members from another community, one is inclined to interpret other’s behaviors based on his own cultural experience and he even seldom realizes he is doing so. To reach a practical understanding in intercultural communication, a more positive attitude toward misunderstanding should be adopted. First, misunderstanding should not be viewed as a totally negative phenomenon. It is part of the spiral critical learning process where previous understanding turns to be a misunderstanding and then is replaced with a new better understanding again. Second, instances of misunderstanding coming from a learner’s personal experience provide valuable opportunities for them to recognize the hidden cultural differences and communicative problems. Those misunderstandings can be used as important instructional material in intercultural communication training and foreign language teaching programs. Third, as misunderstanding in cross-cultural communication commonly exists, people often get to the final understanding through misunderstandings. The best way to accelerate the process and reduce misunderstandings is to encourage people to experience the target culture first hand 80 Intercultural Communication Studies XXIII: and practice it earnestly. Rather than sitting in the classroom and listening to lectures, learners will understand a foreign culture more effectively by actually doing things in that culture. People learn more from mistakes. The more misunderstandings one encounters, the deeper the understanding of the target culture that he can reach.

V. GLOSSARY