Overcoming personal and cultural barriers to producing language for students in monolingual educational environments is a major challenge. This session introduces a broad outline for setting up an intercultural approach to task-based, performance-focused learning. Design of performance tasks and ways to enhance them through student collaboration is the main focus.

1. An Intercultural Approach to Task-based EFL Learning through Collaboration Greece TESOL Convention March 14, 2009 David L. Brooks, Associate Professor Kitasato University, Japan http://leon.blogspot.com Learning English On (the) Net

7. Cultural assumptions - visible and hidden Watch this iPhoto album What are some of the cultural assumptions or values? Of the people in the photos Of the photographer? Of the institution or country?

20. How Metacognitive Inculturalization Works

24. Being a fully actualized learner in EFL classroom should be like a journey to another country - even another habitat. The Environment / Habitat

29. Studying, planning, and building are what make great ideas into an ideology.

36. Here are some examples Stages of students’ project work

38. An Intercultural Approach to Task-based EFL Learning through Collaboration Greece TESOL Convention March 14, 2009 David L. Brooks, Kitasato University, Japan http://leon.blogspot.com Learning English On (the) Net

44. Understand goals 1 st Draft Plan w/ a tool Write complete Speech Edit Revise Correct Practice Speech Evaluate Assess/ Reflect Perform Process for Success

45. Understand goals 1 st Draft Plan w/ a tool Write complete Speech Edit Revise Correct Practice Speech Evaluate Assess/ Reflect Perform Process for Success

50. Writing a paragraph (samples) Not only is the food different in Europe from Japanese food, but so are the meal customs and table manners . There are some important differences between what Europeans do at mealtime . Here are some useful tips for what Japanese visitors to France and Italy should and should not deal when eating. In France, arrive on time because this is a sign of politeness. But in Italy, it is a good idea to arrive just a little late. In both countries it is polite to bring a gift, for example a bottle of wine or some sweets. Flowers are also a good gift, but don’t give people red roses because they express love – the romantic kind. Also, table manner are important in both countries . For example, keep the fork in your left hand and the knife in your right. Remember that it’s not polite to put your elbows on the table. People in France do not like to see a person take a bit from a large piece of bread. Instead, you should tear off a smaller piece of bread and bring that to your mouth to bite. While Italian sometimes hang the napkin from the neck to keep off sauce stains, the French people keep their napkins in their laps. So you can see that is helps to know a bit about meal customs before you travel to Europe. Topic Sentence Topic Sentence Concluding Sentence Connecting to Paragraph before

68. An Intercultural Approach to Task-based EFL Learning through Collaboration Greece TESOL Convention March 14, 2009 David L. Brooks, Associate Professor Kitasato University, Japan http://leon.blogspot.com Learning English On (the) Net