World Englishes, intercultural communication and a business negotiation module within an English course at IUJ
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This paper identifies a tension at IUJ between two types of socio-cultural model of English: standard English and the non-standard World Englishes which many overseas students bring with them to the IUJ campus. Differences in pragmatic conventions mark the most significant differences between the two models. At IUJ, the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) curriculum designers/instructors' attempt to promote awareness of and adherence to the standard pragmatic conventions can run into difficulty because within lUJ's self-contained campus community the large number of students who are not enrolled in English classes tend to be forceful representatives of alternative pragmatic conventions.In the search for a better understanding of the dynamics of of IUJ's multi-cultural student community and the ways in which they affect attitudes to the standard pragmatic conventions, Smith's five senses intercultural communication framework is mapped onto two recurrent stages in the fortunes of the standard pragmatic conventions: the summer recess stage and the regular terms stage. The elegance of the fit between the five senses and the known outcomes of the two stages leads to the decision to utilize the five senses as primary determinants in the design of a standard pragmatics module within one of the EAP courses. This design work, which results in the business negotiation module, is guided by the need to swim with, and not against, the main socio-cultural flows on the campus.
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- 2003-00-00
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