{"id":6105,"date":"2017-05-28T06:51:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T06:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/?p=6105"},"modified":"2017-05-28T06:56:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T06:56:01","slug":"across-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/2017\/05\/28\/across-cultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Across Cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching English, or indeed any foreign language, goes hand in hand with teaching and learning about intercultural communication. In this month&#8217;s issue, Christopher Graham (the trainer of the upcoming iTDI Advanced Course, <a href=\"http:\/\/itdi.pro\/itdihome\/intercultural.php\"><em>Intercultural Communication<\/em><\/a>) explains how desire for cross-cultural communication can motivate students, Michael Griffin suggests a practical way to explore local cultures beyond stereotypes, and Naoko Amano shares her personal, passionate story of travelling across cultures while staying in Japan.<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/2017\/05\/28\/late-naples-using-cross-cultural-awareness-motivate-students\/\"><figure id=\"attachment_6103\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6103\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/christopher-graham-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Graham\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/christopher-graham-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/christopher-graham-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/christopher-graham-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/christopher-graham.jpg 889w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Graham<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>Late in Naples, or using cross-cultural awareness to motivate students<\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/2017\/05\/28\/across-cultures-passion-music-dance\/\"><figure id=\"attachment_4991\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4991\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Naoko-Amano-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Naoko Amano\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Naoko-Amano-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Naoko-Amano-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Naoko-Amano-472x472.jpg 472w, https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Naoko-Amano-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Naoko-Amano.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naoko Amano<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>Across cultures through passion for music and dance<\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/2017\/05\/28\/exploring-local-culture-beyond-festivals-food\/\"><figure id=\"attachment_5108\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5108\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/mike_griffin_profile-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Griffin\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/mike_griffin_profile-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/mike_griffin_profile-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/mike_griffin_profile-245x245.jpg 245w, https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/mike_griffin_profile-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/mike_griffin_profile.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Griffin<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>Exploring local culture beyond festivals and food<\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itdi.pro\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-4972\" src=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/iTDi-circle-150x150.png\" alt=\"iTDi-circle\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching English, or indeed any foreign language, goes hand in hand with teaching and learning about intercultural communication. In this month&#8217;s issue, Christopher Graham (the trainer of the upcoming iTDI Advanced Course, Intercultural Communication) explains how desire for cross-cultural communication can motivate students, Michael Griffin suggests a practical way to explore local cultures beyond stereotypes, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/2017\/05\/28\/across-cultures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Across Cultures<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-across-cultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}