Yumi's placement

In the last few days , I kept thinking about tasks for my placement and I had a few concerns about it. Since there are so many aspects to be taken into consideration , I somehow was stuck at the beginning process of designing workshops. As a result , I decided to discuss about my placement with a colleague and try to figure out a direction. I spend three hours talking with my classmate Dania from IMAESC program about this topic , and it turns out talking with others and collecting ideas is a very effective method to organize my thoughts. Now I ’ m going to write down all my concerns about potential challenges that I ’ m going to meet in this placement. My first concern is about grouping students. Since there are around 100 students , which is a very big group , it can be very difficult to group them in a proper way so that everyone get the best from their group. I ’ m thinking it would be better to group these 100 students into 4 or 5 small groups so that each group...

I started reading the materials about intercultural communication today. I decided to accumulate knowledge about terms and concepts as much as possible since it is the topic of my first workshop. I read the second chapter of Exploring Intercultural Communication written by Zhu Hua ( 2014 ), who is a distinguished Chinese professor of applied linguistics and communication. In this chapter , she mainly illustrated the different communication patterns in Chinese and British contents in terms of meetings , small talks and humor in workplace.  She has provided many interesting perspectives about intercultural communication as she has experience in both Chinese and British cultures. For example , she pointed out that compared to British communicational environment , Chinese model is more influenced by the concept of ‘ power ’, which put leaders and subordinates in a hierarchy and stopped deep communication between them. This is somehow a little paradoxical , because the orie...

I had my first meeting with prof. Anastassia yesterday and we have been discussing about my placement for about one hour. Now I have a relatively clear idea on what I need to do for this course and what I can help with prof.Anastassia. In general , my placement is to work with prof. Anastassia to assist her with teaching the course Intercultural Communication to 100 bachelor students. What I need to do is to help design and facilitate workshops for each lecture. There would be four lectures in total , but since the last one is in December and I probably would be busy at the end of semester , so prof. Anastassia suggested that I should be responsible for only the first three workshops. Each workshop lasts for about 45-60 mins. In order to make those workshops successful , I need to be fully prepared before the course started. Prof. Anastassia has sent me a few papers which is related to her course and she suggested me to come up with the aim for workshop activi...