{"id":822,"date":"2010-05-28T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=822"},"modified":"2010-06-02T09:21:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T07:21:13","slug":"absolutely-intercultural-110-the-world-at-work-debbie-swallow-language-learning-social-media-pilbeam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"absolutely intercultural 110 +++ the world at work +++ Debbie Swallow +++ Language Learning & Social Media +++ Pilbeam +++"},"content":{"rendered":"

absolutely worth it
\n<\/strong>Thank you to Valentina Dodge for nominating the podcast and blog as one worth taking a look at<\/a>. Thanks Valentina and now I just have to compile our own list of blogs worth looking at. I’ll be doing that in time for the next show but in the meantime you’ll hear about a great nomination in today’s show.<\/p>\n

absolutely diverse<\/strong>
\nNow what were you doing last Friday? I’m asking because it was a special day for people interested in intercultural matters and Debbie Swallow from the UK is going to tell us more. I really do recommend a visit to the new theworldatwork<\/a> blog in honour of UNESCO’s World Day for Cultural Diversity, for Dialogue and Development<\/a>.<\/p>\n

absolute textbook
\n<\/strong>It’s often said that you can’t learn a language without culture so it makes sense to bring out a book which helps you learn English through learning about intercultural matters. I was at the IATEFL <\/a>conference in Harrogate in April where I met Adrian Pilbeam<\/a>, the author of the new book Working across Cultures, and discussed it with him. The book is part of the Pearson Longman Market Leader series and could be a useful supplement to the main course text.<\/p>\n

absolutely social
\n<\/strong>Now we’ll hear from Fred Dervin <\/a>in Finland about why he was involved in organising a webinar<\/a> about social media and inclusion and quite what this has to do with culture. The online conference took place in late April about the potential of social media, such as this podcast or our blog, to reduce social exclusion. The event was part of a large European project Language Learning and Social Media <\/a>which will be coming up with best practices. You’d be surprised how much social exclusion has to do with cultural differences.\u00a0In her session Professor Ruth Illman <\/a>from Finland presented us with some different metaphors for culture. Prof Illman’s then moved on\u00a0from talking about boxes to something more flexible. In the\u00a0webinar we also \u00a0heard about some problems in Second Life<\/a>, the virtual world where one of the things you have to do is to choose an avatar or representation of yourself which you can then clothe according to your preferences. Prof. Gr\u00e1inne Conole <\/a>from The Open University, UK explains.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Don’t forget that you can still vote for us <\/a>in the European Podcast Awards <\/a>both on the German page <\/a>and the Danish page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The next show will be coming to you on\u00a011 June from Dr. Laurent Borgmann<\/a> in Germany.<\/p>\n

So long\u2026stay tuned!<\/p>\n

The host of this show is: Anne Fox<\/a>
\nEditor: Dino Nogarole<\/p>\n

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