fulbright Taiwan online journal

fulbright Taiwan online journal

Author: Sarah DeMola 慕莎拉 & Hsing-Hui Winnie Winnie Chiu 邱馨慧

Sarah DeMola 慕莎拉 & Hsing-Hui Winnie Winnie Chiu 邱馨慧
Sarah DeMola 慕莎拉 graduated from the Monterey Institute of International Studies with an MA in TESOL. Her interests include sociolinguistics, language program development, and teacher education.   Hsing-Hui Winnie Chiu 邱馨慧 graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with an MA in TESOL. Her interests include cross-cultural communication, teacher education, and curriculum design.

Cross Cultural Collaboration: Lessons Learned

The role of the Teacher of English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) advisor is multifaceted. When people ask what we do, we explain the job responsibilities as facilitating TEFL teaching workshops, observing classes and holding post observation conferences, responding to weekly English Teaching Assistant (ETA) reports, and conducting research. However, we discovered that the key to fulfill all of these duties is our ability to communicate with one another. Throughout the past five months of working together, we have found great value in facilitating discussions that lead to greater understanding of one another’s culture.      We believe that through our own interactions, discussions, reflections, and co-constructed knowledge base, we have discovered successful strategies for collaboration. We have gained a deeper understanding of the Fulbright mission through our own joint efforts and now better appreciate the essence of what “a world with a little more knowledge and a little less conflict” means in the context of the Fulbright ETA program. In this essay, we hope to articulate the lessons that we have learned about communication and how they might be applied to the co-teaching relationships which are the cornerstone of the Fulbright ETA program. Compromise      Great collaboration does

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fulbright taiwan online journal