Cultural Difference: Read, Discuss, and Write: Exploring and Understanding Cultures Using Academic Skills

This book is a content-based college/university preparation course introducing and giving practice in using a wide range of academic skills. It is of value to English language learners and native speakers who are or will be living in a culturally diverse environment and community.

The content is focused on a neglected area of language-culture studies: the confusion, misunderstandings, misconceptions, and sometimes even hostilities that can occur when learners don't really understand each other's language and culture.

Cultural Differences was written for high-intermediate and advanced learners of English, as well as for adults and young adults who are not language learners but who associate with people from other cultures - for example, when Americans of different ethnic/cultural backgrounds study, work, or live together.

Also available is the photocopyable Supplementary Activities book. While the Basic Text can be used alone, using the two books together provides a more challenging program, since the supplementary photocopyable materials involve the learner in a deeper exploration of how and why people from collectivist and individualist cultures differ.

Each of the 14 units follows this basic pattern. In the Basic Text: * a Reading on a cross-cultural misunderstanding * a Study Guide focused on reading critically
* Academic Vocabulary exercises * preparation for small and whole-class Discussions (Questions in the Supplement) * techniques for academic-style Writing, and a * Preview of the next unit. The Supplement also provides * Applied Outside-Class Interactions * Quizzes, and * Answer Keys.