Lesson 4 Activities

Lesson 4 Reading Quiz

Please choose the best answer to each of the questions.

Communication Discussion Forum

This is an individual assignment, please submit your initial discussion post by Thursday. Each student will then respond to at least two other posts (not related to the host country of their project).

Initial post: After watching the video on the page Communication and Culture (with Journal Entry L4-1) and thinking about your past experiences, describe one of your own experiences that could have been included in the video. Include what you could have done differently in this encounter or situation.

Lesson 4 News Presentation Discussion

Discussion Overview

Please see the News Presentation Videos assignment and either post your video presentation and questions (if you are a presenter this week) or review this lesson's presentation post(s), which should be available by Thursday. Then, reply to your classmates.

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News Presenters

Post your video presentation and at least two thought-provoking questions for class discussion by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday. See the News Presentation Videos assignment for additional information on preparing your presentation.

You will be graded on your presentation in the News Presentation Videos assignment. Additionally, you will receive up to 14 points for your two thought-provoking questions and timely responses to students in this discussion.

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All Other Students

All students, except for the presenters, must first view the posted video presentation(s) and respond to at least one of the news presenter's questions by noon on Saturday. Clearly indicate to which question you are responding in your replies. Please post this response as soon as possible after the news presentation is posted in order to provide time for classmates to reply to you.

Additionally, you must reply to at least two (2) peer responses by Sunday at 11:59p.m. North American ET. “All Other Students” receive up to 14 points for this assignment. Please click on Show Rubric to see the rubric for this assignment.

Additional information may be found in the News Presentation Videos assignment.

Language Quiz: Turkish

Match the English and Turkish words/phrases to demonstrate your understanding of the key words/phrases covered in this lesson.

Please use this as a learning opportunity. I realize that you could simply look at the course page, but instead please give this a try without looking when you take the quiz.

You will receive three tries to take the quiz and your highest score will be kept.

If nothing else, try it twice without looking at the Canvas page.

Intercultural Development Plan (IDP)

By now each student should have received their Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) results and your individualized Intercultural Development Plan (IDP). If you have not received them please contact your instructor immediately.

Please read the entire IDI Individual Profile and Intercultural Development Plan (IDP) as it provides an overview of learning opportunities that you can use to develop your own intercultural competencies and move you on long the intercultural development continuum (a primary goal of this course). For those that are already within the 'adaptation' orientation, there are still growth opportunities for you as well.

Your personalized IDP pdf document will help guide you through the development of your intercultural development plan.

1. Before you get started on your IDP please review your IDI Individual Profile results.
2. Complete parts 1–3 of the IDP document. You will provide responses to all of the questions from parts 1–3 in the IDP pdf.
   • 1.0. What has been your experience with cultural communities?
   • 2.0. Please identify 1-2 goals you have for more effectively navigating cultural differences and commonalities.
   • 3.0. Identify challenging situations or barriers you face.
3. Identify at least 5 hours worth of activities from part 4 that you will complete throughout the semester. Part 4 of the IDP provides several activities that are tailored to your specific developmental stage on the continuum. You do not need to complete the activities for this submission but you must identify them now and then work on these activities throughout the semester.
   • Each activity has an estimated time for completion. Use the time estimate to identify at least 5 hours worth of activities.
   • At least one of the identified activities must involve an interaction with another person.
   • For this assignment you need to identify the activities by highlighting them in yellow within the pdf.
   • Do not select the final activity in the plan (Summary reflection questions) as part of your 5 hours. This final reflection will be part of the final assignment due in Lesson 13)
4. Use the IDP pdf to develop your plan and submit the partially completed pdf document to this assignment. The pdf is setup to be able to type your responses directly in the document using Adobe Reader.

You will then implement the identified activities throughout the remainder of the semester and towards the end of the semester (Lesson 13) there will be a final reflection activity where you will submit the completed activities identified in this assignment, along with the final reflection questions at the end of your IDP pdf.

You need to start on this assignment in lesson 2, but you are given until lesson 4 to submit your IDP.

You should also start to implement the suggested activities that you identified for your intercultural development as soon as possible to gain the greatest benefit from this activity within the next 11 weeks of this course.