This GP aims to facilitate a
better classroom environment in a room with international students/learners. With this short
reflection exercise students should develop “good” aspects in communication in a transcultural setting. These
aspects can later be implemented by
the educator. Participants are asked to imagine a dialogic situation that they have perceived. This can be a dialogue
in a university, private or professional context. Afterwards participants discuss
in small groups of four why they think it was
a successful dialogue. They identify the reasons for this and write them on cards. The trainer
then collects all the reasons, which are discussed in the plenary
session.
The goals of the dialogue method
include reflecting on good experiences in dialogues and with intercultural communication;
visualization of different perspectives on how
“good communication” can be shaped; making visible the complexity of
dialogic communication between
members of different cultures; recognising the experiences of the
participants.
The following
steps are to be taken:
Step 1: Selection
of a dialogue (self-reflection by means of written notes)
Step 2: Reflection on dialogues in
small groups (students should share their selected dialogues in the small group
in order to make
the diversity of the dialogs
visible)