TESOL 103 BYU

Culture is one of the most powerful forces in the world. It shapes how we make sense of our world, how we express ourselves and how we understand and relate to others. In this textbook we introduce cultural universals and culturally specific constructs in psychology. This textbook was created for an undergraduate course that appeals to psychology majors and non-majors because it meets several general education and transfer credit requirements. As a result, cross-cultural psychologists suggest that many observations about human thought and behavior may only be generalizable to specific subgroups. To develop a broader, richer understanding of people that can be applied to a wider variety of cultural settings, it is essential for researchers to also look at people from diverse cultures. Cross-cultural brain research touches on a wide run of points, so understudies curious about other brain research themes may select to too center on this zone of brain research. For illustration, a chi...

  This is an interesting topic, when I was reading I was thinking about some things we do here in El Salvador, and one thing that came into my mind was that when we are walking and we pass in front of some people that are eating we say Provecho that could be translated to have a nice meal, I do not think that Americans have a word that you say when someone is eating, anyway, here in El Salvador is common to say that when a stranger is eating and you pass near them. Another thing that I could think of is that here in El Salvador when we know someone, friends, and family we say hello with a kiss on the cheek, and when I tried to do this in the USA they looked at me like I was insane haha. Also with my friend from Spain, it was weird that they kiss 2 times on the cheek. I read that in Asia, letting tips in a restaurant is an insult, but here in El Salvador is disrespectful to not let tips when the waiter or waitress gave you a good service. In Asia you need to take off your shoes ...

  I haven’t had the opportunity to be in a multicultural ESL classroom or to have foreign students when I was at high school, but in experience, at my mission, I could have the opportunity to know different cultures, American, Mexican, Argentina, Chilean, Bolivian, Paraguayan, among others. All are from America. I think everyone from El Salvador to Argentina we are really open-mind, friendly and likes jokes. I will like to share my experience in a Salvadorian classroom, we are like in the video says that when the class is almost finishing, maybe 5 minutes before the finish, students are saving their notebooks and everything even if the teacher hasn’t finished, and sometimes the teacher says “Why are you saving your notebooks, I haven’t finish yet, I will let you homework” and all the students need to get our their notebooks again. For us is disrespectful to talk between students when the teacher is talking, but sometimes we do. One thing I have seen in movies about Asian students...