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  1. A Flower's Point of View

    Collections | 03 Jul 2020 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    For those of you abroad in TEFL settings with classrooms that are more homogenous... From the main Digital Toolbox page (remember, under the Discover top menu), try searching a) for an...

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  2. Metaphors for Culture

    Collections | 03 Nov 2020 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    I am a fan of talking and thinking about culture in TESOL classrooms, and I also think it is fun to dissect language, so this one has double the appeal. It's a great powerpoint that gets...

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  3. Metaphors across Cultures

    Collections | 03 Nov 2020 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    While we are a metaphor kick - this one would be more appropriate for advanced ESOL students unless you conducted it in their L1. It is great for highlighting the important role that language plays...

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  4. Zoom in, Zoom out

    Collections | 03 Nov 2020 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    If you are trying to get your ESOL students to stop equating culture with nationality, this is a great activity to complicate their thinking. It's low tech and results in great discussions that...

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  5. Redundancia

    Collections | 03 Nov 2020 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    This is not an activity I would do with ESOL learners themselves, but it is great for TESOL teacher training, especially for monolinguals or for those who haven't studied a language in good...

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  6. Language Envelopes

    Collections | 03 Nov 2020 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    I love this activity. It does require face to face instruction, though, and it takes quite a bit of time to organize the materials, especially for larger groups. But, it's wonderful for...

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  7. Language Constructs Enemies

    Collections | 03 Nov 2020 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    Here's another one for TESOL teacher in training. It uses concrete examples and an inductive approach to critique the language often used in US media and other discourses to describe other...

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  8. Icebreakers

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    In any collection for teachers I like to include a few icebreakers that are appropriate to the teaching context. Many teachers overlook the teaching potential of icebreakers, which are useful for...

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  9. Icebreakers that highlight culture

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    Two of my favorite culturally focused icebreakers are Voices from the Past and the Name Game. You can read what I wrote about them in this TESOL collection or visit them directly in the toolbox....

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  10. Icebreakers with physical props

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    For those of you who like to give your students something physical to manipulate, these experiential tools are great for icebreakers as well as debriefing learning. My absolute favorite is the...

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  11. The SALTO Youth Toolbox

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    Annette Benson pulled this toolbox into one of her collections, with lots of concrete details about where to find elements of the SALTO collection in the HubICL, so I am passing along that resource...

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  12. Great video to develop Openness

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    One of my favorite media activities uses the TED talk "The Danger of a Single Story". It is highly engaging and can be used to inspire openness to multiple narratives and perspectives....

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  13. Comfort with discomfort

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    Part of openness, or the willingness to interact across cultural differences, is tolerance for discomfort (social, emotional, mental, physical), so activities like this can be helpful for students...

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  14. A great kinesthetic activity

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    Language Envelopes takes a lot of effort to put together, but boy is it worth it! I love seeing students creatively trying to arrange objects into categories and eventually coming to the conclusion...

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  15. Looking for a good worksheet?

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    Culture mapping gets students to think about their own cultural values, which can be helpful both for self-awareness and in preparation to interact with someone from another language background....

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  16. Send students to the web

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    There are great cultural learning web resources out there. Some are proprietary and have associated costs (see Country Navigator as an example). The Hofstede website tool is free, but I always...

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  17. Speaking of stereotypes...

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    If you are looking for a way to get students to recognize and address stereotypes, this is a basic activity for changing stereotypes into generalizations. 

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  18. Humans think in metaphors (which vary across cultures)

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    For more advanced students capable of thinking critically about the underlying cultural metaphors that lurk in our subconscious and come out in language, this activity is great. It's probably...

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  19. A versatile Values activity

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    I love that the Human Values Continuum can be so easily adapted. I linked here not only the original tool, but also collection posts that discuss it being applied in different ways, including...

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  20. Assessment ideas for world language classrooms

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    Aletha Stahl has a great collection of resources for assessing intercultural learning in language classrooms. See her favorites here.

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  21. Conversation starters are a great resource for language teachers

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    Whether you are assigning conversation partners amongst your own students, or pairing them with native speakers externally, it is extremely useful to provide some structure and guidance for their...

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  22. Nonverbals can be as important as conversation skills

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    Don't neglect nonverbal communication in the language classroom! Not only can attention to nonverbals be very helpful to language learners in interpreting what they hear, but also they can get...

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  23. An oldie but a goodie

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    This activity, the Scissors Game, has been around forever, but I still like it because it is simple, fun, kinesthetic, and effectively makes the point that students need to pay attention to other...

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  24. Focusing on space

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    Draw a House is a good proxemics activity. Rather than the more typical focus of personal space bubbles in most proxemic learning exercises, this one emphasizes the differences in how people around...

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  25. Classic simulations

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    More kinesthetic options include these simulations that have been around forever in different forms: BaFa BaFa requires quite a bit of accoutrement, but Toothpicks and Cocktail party are easier and...

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  26. A simulation that highlights assumptions

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    Albatross is another oldie but goodie - it is relatively easy to perform and adapt to different contexts. The learning is both in the discomfort of the simulation itself and especially in the...

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  27. Card game that stimulates conflict

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    Another great simulation is Barnga, especially if you want to highlight how different cultures "play by different rules" and "define winning in different ways". It is easy and...

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  28. For those who like a good critical incident

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    There are a ton of resources linked from the Critical Incident tool under Links. Check out all the ways that you can get your learners to imagine themselves in a culturally fraught situation and...

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  29. Doing ethnography

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    Here are 3 activities you can use to hone those cultural discovery skills in your language learners: Grocery Store Ethnography, YouTube Ethnography, Martian Anthropology.

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  30. Foundational ethnographic skills

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    Do your students need some basic instruction and practice in listening and observation skills that can help them learn about culturally different others? Here are two new options from CILMAR:...

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  31. Not just for study abroad

    Collections | 18 Jan 2022 | Posted by Kris Acheson-Clair

    We have been using the Amazing Race in Study Abroad support courses for many years at Purdue, but I think it has applications to the language classroom as well. You would just need to adapt...

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  32. Language and Culture

    Collections | 18 Jan 2023 | Posted by Annette Benson

    Photo Analysis: Women of Cover, an activity Working in Unfamiliar Surroundings Quiz, an activity CERCLL Collection for Language Teachers, a collection Frameworks and Theories for Intercultural...

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  33. CERCLL Collection for Language Teachers

    Collections | 21 Mar 2023 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This collection includes activities and simulations geared toward intercultural learning in the world language classroom.

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  34. [Lost in Citations Podcast] The Burnout Spiral: The Emotion Labor of Five Rural US Foreign Language Teachers

    Collections | 23 Aug 2023 | Posted by Annette Benson

    This podcast addresses emotional labor in the foreign language classroom.

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  35. Foreign Language Can-do Statements

    Collections | 01 Dec 2023 | Posted by Katherine Yngve

    Expressed in first-person format, these statements state what the learner is able to do with a non-native language. For example: " I can participate in spontaneous spoken, written, or signed...

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  36. BONUS: Intercultura Assessment Protocol

    Collections | 02 Dec 2023 | Posted by Katherine Yngve

    The Intercultura organization, a non-profit research institute based in Italy, has developed a rubric, logbook and teacher's observation guide, which taken together provide an authentic...

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  37. Analyzing the form and extent of emotion labor among US public school foreign language teachers with the Emotional Labour Scale

    Collections | 28 Mar 2024 | Posted by Annette Benson

    Acheson, K., & Nelson, R. (2020). Analyzing the form and extent of emotion labor among US public school foreign language teachers with the Emotional Labour Scale. In C. Gkonou, J.-M. Dewaele,...

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  38. Analyzing the form and extent of emotion labor among US public school foreign language teachers with the Emotional Labour Scale

    Collections | 28 Mar 2024 | Posted by Purdue CILMAR

    Acheson, K., & Nelson, R. (2020). Analyzing the form and extent of emotion labor among US public school foreign language teachers with the Emotional Labour Scale. In C. Gkonou, J.-M. Dewaele,...

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  39. CERCLL Collection for Language Teachers

    Collections | 12 Jun 2024 | Posted by Kelsey Patton

    Welcome CERCLL affiliates and ICC conference attendees! I have put together this collection of activities that you might find useful in supporting intercultural development in language classrooms,...

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