Stages Of Culture Shock

Teaching ELL's can be a very challenging aspect of a teaching job. Not only are teachers working with children who are scared, nervous and perhaps confused, but educators are working with students who may be encountering a great deal of culture shock. I believe that for me, this would be difficult. Honestly, I grew up a typical "white American girl" living the typical "white American life." I have not been exposed to many people who were not like me. Nevertheless, I am genuinely, looking forward to expanding my horizons and challenging myself to learn about other cultures and ways of life. Through the reading of chapter one, in Not for ESOL Teachers: What Every Classroom Teacher Needs to Know About the Linguistically, Culturally, and Ethnically

In order to be effective and affective educators we need to understand how the new culture will affect them and why. Educators must understand that children are always affected by the perceptions and cultural acceptance of their parents. Parents can choose to assimilate or isolate themselves in the new community. This move is detrimental in the ELL attitude towards their new cultural surroundings.

When inferring why ESL/ELL students are at a major disadvantage in our schools, it is apparent that language and cultural barriers hinder their progress. Because so much of the current American curricula is taught based on cultural norms, knowledge, mores, and standards, our ESL/ELL students lack this prior knowledge, context, and background to expand their skills and scaffold in many areas. Since their parents often cannot practice with them or reinforce some essential skills, such as literacy, when many ELL/ESL parents themselves lack basic English and often not even GEDs or high school diplomas in the case of refugee and illegal immigrants, these students enter our schools at a major disadvantage cognitively, academically, socially, emotionally,

What Peter Berger means by the first statement, in which he links sociological discovery to culture shock minus geographical displacement, is that sociological discoveries and realizations are very often made in one 's own society. When they are made, they might come off as shocking because they are being viewed in a different light. You can go to the nearest church or park and make new discoveries with what you observe in an open state of mind.

Despite having researched the educational challenges ESOL students face, it was only by actively engaging with students that I came to understand the disjunction between the resources available and the requirements for progress in the educational system. ESOL students, lacking familial support and economic resources, are deterred from advancing in their efforts to learn English, thus leading them to become discouraged and

This first chapter has quick insights of how Cultural Competence could be so effectively with children. What this chapter made me recognized is that it’s essential to building a relationship with students. As the text points that students may be more comfortable with a teacher of their own background, regardless of the teachers background the true success of having a learning environment is based on a sensitive, caring and committed teacher. Having teachers getting to know their students would be encouraging for a teacher-student relationship student might discovery acceptance and comfort in having someone who provides stability and structure by getting to know them. Additionally, teachers should not be scared to permit themselves to be taught

As a first generation immigrant, everything is new here; new culture, new language, and a new society . I think the most difficult thing I have faced in the United States is the language. Learning a new language is not that easy, but language is the most vital key of being success, and it is also an important key factor for communication. I was afraid of speaking English because I am afraid of making mistakes, which had made me to become introverted or even feeling depressed during the first year in the United States. But after a year long study in high school, I have realized that, making mistakes is fine as long as I am able to express what I want to say, as mistakes and failures are also the keys to success.

With the immigration population increase comes a language barrier increase. Therefore, English as a Second Language (ESL) tools in the classroom is essential. ESL was established in the 1970s when children of many mother tongues, crowded classrooms due to the immigration increase (Tomkins, G., 1981, p.

Culture is all about an individual knowledge based on belief ,art,morals customs.Therefore culture shock occurs when people have different values and beliefs and are not tolerant of each others differences(Eckermann,Dowd,Chong,Nixon,Gray and Johnson,2006.).The separation of important people in

Current teachers don’t know where to find this new information and research on ELL instruction. It is important that we develop an understanding as educators to understand completely how ELL students learn. There are 5 Principles and their instructional implications for ELL students: Teachers need to scaffold their instruction, use a variety of methods, and promote the use of student interaction; Teaching academic language; instruction that has ELL students making state content standards; instruction compatible to the students’ cultures; assessment is used correctly. Lastly, lesson 5 is “Build a bridge to families and community members.” Students learn best at home and the same is said for ELL students especially when it comes to speaking in English and other things. This can be done by the use of multilingual staff that are available when interacting with parents so they know about their child’s education. Offering family literacy programs are a great way to involve parents in their child’s education as ELL

The biggest culture shock experience I have ever had was when my mother, brother, boyfriend and I went to visit my family in Tucson, Arizona. We went to visit my moms brother, his wife and their son who had lived in Arizona for about ten years. I had visited Arizona many times before but it was when I was younger so I did not remember much about the setting or the people who lived there. I was not fully made aware of the lack of diversity surrounding us until my boyfriend, who is from El Salvador and my six-year-old brother, who is mixed white and black, pointed it out to me. I guess I never thought about it because I, myself am Caucasian so everything seemed normal to me…at first. Because Tucson is right on the boarder of Mexico, anyone who isn’t Caucasian is pretty much assumed to be illegal and ultimately Mexican, Maryland is such a diverse part of the country that when you step out of it you experience an immediate change in culture.

I do not think that I have really experienced full-blown culture shock as was described in this week’s PowerPoint (Zeiglemann). However, I have an idea as to how I might deal with being immersed in a different culture than my own. One way I would deal with being in a different culture would be to make sure that I have people around me who understand what I would be going through. This provides me with someone who could coach me through the tough periods and experiences while in the different culture. Second, I would make sure to go out and experience as much of the culture as possible. By doing this, I would keep my mind occupied on the events I am experiencing rather than the contrasts between cultures that would be effecting me. Lastly,

Culture Shock has played a tremendous role in the growth of cultural ecology because it is an issue that is constantly growing all over the world. In the United States, it may not seem like things are changing involving culture shock, but it is not any different then the changes in places like Africa and China for example. It is developing equally across the world because there are now more ways to travel. So, what exactly is culture shock anyways? Well, it is known as going to a foreign or unfamiliar territory that one is not used to, so they may feel symptoms of anxiety such as nervousness or shock because the customs, actions, beliefs, etc of those people may not seem familiar to them, so one may feel ill-prepared for the changing environment. Also, for example, if one was to go to school in the U.S. but came from China, they would feel culture shock because the rules in China are not the same as rules in the U.S. and so it may make one feel uneasy about the situation because they are not use to change and maybe the move was to quick for them to adjust properly. The United States is very different from foreign areas because the culture is very different. Where have people of Africa seen movie productions, music, sports, universities, iPhones, computers, etc? The answer is not where they live but in the United States if they traveled there before. This is exactly the issue with culture shock in ecology. Culture is what people behave like, feel, and do. Shock is a symptom

Culture can be defined as the characteristics of a particular social, ethnic or age group. Every country in the world has it’s own culture and beliefs that holds the nation together. Sociologists define society as the people who interact in such a way as to share a common culture. The cultural bond may be ethnic or racial, based on gender, or due to shared beliefs, values, and activities. Culture is an organized system because it ties many parts together that are interconnected to all function as one but almost every nation. The United States and Nigeria are no exceptions to having in a culture, however, the people in these countries sometimes base their knowledge of each other solely on what is shown in the media. Culture shock is real and this essay covers some of Nigeria’s belief as a country, how I made assumptions about America based on what I saw on television, and the differences between these two unique countries.

Bilingual” (qtd in Shi, Steen 63). The objective of the ESL students is to learn how to speak, read, and write in English and know about the system of the school too. That learning will help them with other courses in school. ESL students have come from all over the world in America to study. Statistically, the number of immigrants in the USA is growing quickly. This quote shows us that