CCU - 5

Citation: Fadeeva., and Kalinin. (2012). The importance of cross-cultural Understanding for efl students: 144-152.

After reading this journal I got difficulty in separating the parts of the journal. I mean, the researcher did not separate which one is the literature review, discussion, conclusion, and so on. In writing this journal, the researcher seems like just putting the expert theory or assumption without giving more explanation using his own opinion.

Based on this journal, to achieve the successful communication, te speaker not only must be excellent in foreign language skills but also in knowing the cross-cultural understanding too. in teaching the cross-cultural understanding the researcher stated he got difficulties and problems. And he states knowing about other countries ability and language is important, if we are live in that country and we have mastered the cultures and the language it will be like our own home. In teaching the cross-cultural understanding and encourage them to study this lesson the researcher used some steps, those steps are:

1. Revising the names of the world countries, their capitals, and nationalities. Showing them on the map 
2. Defining religions in different countries 
3. Dividing countries according to their cultures into Affective and Neutral 
4. Dividing countries according to their cultures into Specific and Defuse 
5.  Dividing countries according to their cultures into high-context or low-context  
6.  Studying different ways of greeting and saying good-bye in different cultures 
7. Studying cross-cultural dining etiquette 
8. Studying cross-cultural guest etiquette and ways of entertaining people
9.  Final project paper work