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Team-building Activities
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10 May 2024 |
Posted by Kelsey Patton
Birds of a Feather (20 min)
In this activity, participants recognize that people bring different talents, perspectives, and backgrounds to groups and understand the benefits of forming...
https://hubicl.org/members/1349/collections/teamwork
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Civil Discourse - Smarter Every Day
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09 Apr 2024 |
Posted by Kelsey Patton
In this activity, participants identify elements of civil discourse, reflect on the meaning and importance of civil discourse, reflect critically on their own ability to conduct civil discourse,...
https://hubicl.org/members/1349/collections/the-limits-and-potentials-of-rhetoric
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Draw a House
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28 Mar 2024 |
Posted by Kelsey Patton
In this activity, participants will compare and contrast features of houses around the world, articulate how and why cultures organize spaces, such as homes, differently, and consider when and how...
https://hubicl.org/members/1349/collections/a-place-to-call-home
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Intercultural Learning Activities
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28 Mar 2024 |
Posted by Kelsey Patton
The Parable, an activity
Disagree Better: Empathy Gym, an activity
Guess the Emotion, an activity
A Flower’s Point of View, an activity
Connecting Empathetically, an...
https://hubicl.org/members/1349/collections/all-things-empathy
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Embracing Left-Handedness: Breaking Cultural Stigmas to Enhance Children's Development
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27 Mar 2024 |
Posted by Kelsey Patton
This article, written by Frances Akinde, provides an example of Nigerian etiquette and its cultural nuances and implications.
https://hubicl.org/members/1349/collections/exploring-etiquette-across-cultures
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Hand Shake Mingle
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18 Mar 2024 |
Posted by Kelsey Patton
In this activity, participants greet one another by pairing up, finding new partners, and returning to previous partners in order to "build connections with a few partners" (Stanchfield,...
https://hubicl.org/members/1349/collections/exploring-etiquette-across-cultures
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Compliment Response
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18 Mar 2024 |
Posted by Kelsey Patton
This assignment focuses on techniques for discovering and acquiring pragmatics, which goes above and beyond learning the vocabulary and grammar of a language to how people use language and...
https://hubicl.org/members/1349/collections/ethnography-and-intercultural-learning
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Ritual
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17 Mar 2024 |
Posted by Kelsey Patton
"This [Thiagi] jolt deals with the concept of exclusion (and inclusion) in groups. A few participants are sent outside the room while teams of other participants are taught a secret...
https://hubicl.org/members/1349/collections/ethnography-and-intercultural-learning
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Martian Anthropology
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17 Mar 2024 |
Posted by Kelsey Patton
In this activity, participants practice observation in a new situation and discuss cultural values based on behavioral observation, gaining a variety of perspectives on what is considered...
https://hubicl.org/members/1349/collections/ethnography-and-intercultural-learning
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Effective Listening Inventory
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01 Dec 2023 |
Posted by Katherine Yngve
The non-verbal aspects of communication are a very often overlooked aspect of how to connect across difference. This inventory is designed to help the learner recognize that there are multiple...
https://hubicl.org/members/1046/collections/formative-tools-aligned-to-the-aacu-intercultural-rubric
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A Life Without Questions or No Questions, Please!
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22 Sep 2023 |
Posted by Annette Benson
This activity challenges participants to seek information in creative ways. They will engage in a conversation and attempt to learn more about their partner without asking them any questions. Then,...
https://hubicl.org/members/1005/collections/question-activities
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Willingness to Listen Measure
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23 Aug 2023 |
Posted by Annette Benson
This instrument is designed to measure orientation toward listening with relation to listener perceptions of a speaker.
https://hubicl.org/members/1005/collections/listening
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Nov 17 2022
2022 NAFSA Region VI and VIII Conference - A toolkit for building intercultural empathy through non-verbal communication
Chair:Annette K. Benson, MS.Senior Public Relations ConsultantPurdue University-Main CampusLafayette, INDescription:The AAC&U has determined that intercultural empathy and non-verbal...
https://hubicl.org/events/details/33
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Ritual
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04 Nov 2022 |
Posted by Annette Benson
An activity from Thiagi: "As a teenager, if you ever desperately wanted to belong to a group but you were not permitted to do so, you know how it feels to be excluded. This jolt deals with the...
https://hubicl.org/members/1005/collections/communication-and-empathy
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Poker Face
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04 Nov 2022 |
Posted by Annette Benson
This activity challenges participants to interrogate how stereotypes affect our first impressions and the value that we place on others. In this activity, participants will place one card from...
https://hubicl.org/members/1005/collections/communication-and-empathy
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Pacing
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04 Nov 2022 |
Posted by Annette Benson
This activity challenges participants to recognize different communication patterns involving pacing. They will also reflect on how differences in pacing are perceived and how they might interact...
https://hubicl.org/members/1005/collections/communication-and-empathy
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What Teaching Looks Like
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09 Sep 2022 |
Posted by Annette Benson
This powerful Elon University Open Access Book Series gives us photographic glimpses into "what teaching looks like" in higher education.
https://hubicl.org/members/1005/collections/emotion-labor
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Focusing on space
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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...
https://hubicl.org/members/1048/collections/cercll-collection-for-language-teachers
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An oldie but a goodie
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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...
https://hubicl.org/members/1048/collections/cercll-collection-for-language-teachers
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Nonverbals can be as important as conversation skills
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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...
https://hubicl.org/members/1048/collections/cercll-collection-for-language-teachers