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    Cultural awareness is important for learners, teachers, translators, and interpreters to understand cultural differences and avoid misunderstandings. The document discusses teaching cultural awareness and compares and contrasts aspects of Brazilian and American culture such as personal space, eye contact, volume of voice, physical contact, greetings, conversation styles, spelling, use of phones, punctuality, gift-giving, disagreeing, and taboo words. It provides examples to illustrate cultural differences such as types of parties, splitting bills, and expressions with different meanings. References are included for further reading on cultural customs, superstitions, English teaching, varieties of English, and intercultural communication.

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    CULTURAL AWARENESS

    Elcio Souza <camilo01@amcham.com.br>

    Food for thought


    1 - Is cultural awareness important for learners, teachers, translators, and interpreters? Why?
    2 - How can you teach it? How much class time should be devoted to it?

    CULTURE

    Big C
    Culture

    little c
    culture

    Compare and contrast Brazilian and American cultural behavior regarding:


    - Proxemics
    - Eye Contact
    - Voice Loudness
    - Physical Contact (Kissing, Touching, Shaking Hands, dating, etc)
    - Addressing Codes (introductions/greetings: Strangers, Acquaintances, Professionals)
    - Conversational Interactions (3 As)
    - How to spell words
    - Speaking on the phone
    - Social Behavior (punctuality, gifts, visits, lies, disagreeing)
    - Four-Letter Words
    - NO-NO questions
    - NO-NO words for Brazilians: Teacher / What? / Doubt ///----/// Anyway / Thank God
    -

    Specifics:
    Baile de debutante: sweet sixteen
    Festinha para estrear a casa nova: house warming
    Ch de beb: baby shower
    Festinha Americana: pot luck party
    Dividir a conta: go Dutch
    Olho gordo: evil eye
    Despedida de solteiro: bachelors party (stag party) /// bachelorettes party (hen party)
    Voc fica com o seu ponto de vista e eu fico com o meu, tudo bm?
    Lets agree to disagree.

    References:
    101 American Customs. Collis & Kohl. NTC, 1999.
    101 American Superstitions. Collis & Kohl. NTC, 1998.
    An A-Z of ELT. Thornbury, Macmillan, 2006.
    Cultural Awareness. Tomalin & Stempleski. Oxford, 1993.
    Discovering American Culture. Delk, Michigan, 2000.
    New Ways in Teaching Culture. Fantini, A.E. TESOL series, 2001.
    Varieties of English. Gass & Lefkowitz. Michigan, 1998.
    The Cambridge Guide to TESOL. Carter & Nunan. Cambridge, 2001.
    (Chapter 29 - Intercultural Communication)
    ES-09/13

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