Cultural Exchange between Japanese and International Students

The first semester of the 2018 to 2019 academic year saw seven international
students, one each from China, Germany, Indonesia, Korea and Thailand and
two from Brazil join my 3rd Year International Culture English Communication
class.

The coursebook we used - 'Inspire 2' (Cengage Learning/National Geographic) offers
topics which lend themselves to exchanging ideas. The topics which we covered were:
Food, Festivals, Cities, Jobs, Music, Journeys (Travel) and Happiness.

Each topic was focussed on in two classes. In the second of those, about half of the
class was used for international students to present information and ideas about the
topic related to their own countries. However, a two way exchange was strongly
encouraged.

Below are some of the groups in the final session on 2nd August on 'Happiness':


As can be seen, international students have presented both individually and in pairs.
Numbers of Japanese students in these exchanges have ranged from one to eight.
On a scale of 5, Japanese students gave a rating of 4.1 for their experience.

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