MULTIDIMENSIONAL CURRICULUM DESIGN

ESL 2

Instructor: Marianne Eiselt

Theme: Professional "culture" in North America

Field of Experience: Living and working in Canada

Subjects to be Developed: Canadian geography, people, customs and holidays; communication skills for the foreign-born professional, human rights guidelines, job interview guidelines for foreigners.

Experiential Goal: Produce audio tape demonstrating Canadian Cultural behaviour and job interview guidelines for foreign-born professionals to be used as a resource for international students.

Length of Unit: 5 weeks

Age Group: Adults (University graduates and post docs).

Nationality of Students: Asian and South American

Speaking/Listening competency Level: High intermediate/Advanced, minimal benchmark 8.

 

Experiential/Communicative Objectives:

1. View and analyze videotape about people in Canada.

2. Read articles and talk about studying and working in New Brunswick.

3. discuss articles about Canadian geography, people and human rights.

4. Use the internet to locate information on job interview practices in Canada.

5. Examine rules for social and cultural behaviour as a means of communication.

Language Objectives:

1. Listen and view audio/video text for particular information.

2. Examine verbal and non-verbal behaviour in communication.

3. Review pronunciation and sentence intonation.

4. Role play conversations.

5. Oral presentations of subject related topics

Cultural Objectives:

1. Examine Canadian public behaviour in conversations.

2. Compare work place behaviour in Canada, China, Korea, Malaysia, Japan and Venezuela.

General Language Objectives:

1. Reflect and talk about conditions for optimal learning (personal analysis).

2. Plan video production.

3. Examine criteria for job interview.

4. Practice run.

Detailed Lesson Plans

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