Deck 16: How Do Cultural Differences Impact Our Education Experience and Outcomes

Question 1

What are some key variances in norms of communication that people bring to bear in the classroom?

Answer 1

No Answer

Question 2

What are some classroom functions and activities that are influenced by variances in culturally-informed norms of communication?

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

Explain the difference between linguistic and communication competence in classroom interaction?

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

Explain how cultural variances about silence might affect educational contexts.

Question 5

Japanese elementary aged school children subtly were taught cultural worldviews when _________ guided their students' _____ in drawing a figure.

Question 6

Three challenges that students must manage with regard to access to education include, not knowing the language of education, economic limitations, and physical and _________ constraint

Question 7

Deaf culture involves its own language and its own _______.

Question 8

Which one of the following is not an outcome of communicative silence?

A) Exaggerating culture
B) Particularizing culture
C) Perpetuating culture
D) Protecting culture

Question 9

From the examples noted in this chapter, we can conclude that communication is always:

A) Productive and meaningful
B) Ethical and timely
C) Productive and risky
D) Interdependent and situational

Question 10

Through his work in Japan, John Condon learned how elementary aged school children learned local worldviews based on:

A) Self-expression
B) Argumentation
C) Hierarchical
D) Egalitarianism

Question 11

To promote effective and appropriate communication, members of Deaf communities coordinate various interactional behaviors including those below except:

A) Oculesics
B) Praxis
C) Proxemics
D) Haptics

Question 12

Although education involves the cooperation of students, faculty, and staff, it is largely up to the instructor to facilitate content and ______________ for shaping an educational culture wherein all students can learn.

A)Process
B)Entertainment
C)Emotional satisfaction
D)Potential

Question 13

Communication competence is an innate human characteristic.

Question 14

Many members of Deaf culture are considered multilingual.

Question 15

Dialogic approaches to education are fruitful means for enhancing the learning experience.