Ecuador

1
Ecuador!!

• What to
• Do and Consider Before you Go

2

• What are you currently doing to prepare yourself
  for living in a non-English speaking country?

3
Language

• Classes
• http//www.studyspanish.com/destinations/spanish_i
  n_atlanta_georgia.htm
• Latin American Association

4
Language contd

• Self-Study
• Rosetta Stone
• Just about every school that has a sizable ELL
  population will have RS in the Media Center
• County Libraries
• Any language programs you can check out
• Spanish videos (with or without subtitles)
• Spanish TV stations
• Language resources to take with you
• Berlitz Latin American Spanish Phrase Book
• http//www.amazon.com/Berlitz-American-Spanish-Phr
  ase-Dictionary/dp/2831578469/refsr_1_3?ieUTF8s
  booksqid1222785290sr8-3

5

• Consider studying Spanish while you are in
  Ecuador

6

• What are you currently doing to prepare yourself
  for living in a different culture?

7
Culture

• What is culturally appropriate in one culture may
  or may not be in another culture
• activity

8

• Examples
• Personal Space
• What is comfortable for you?
• Directness
• How many ways can you ask to open the window
  because it is too warm in here?
• Eye Contact
• Gestures
• Concepts of Time
• Resources
• http//www.ecamcham.com/infocenter/cultura_ec_en.h
  tm
• http//www.intercultures.ca/cil-cai/intercultural_
  issues-en.asp?lvl8ISOECSubjectID2

9
Assignment

• Boundary Crossing Field Experience
• Go alone (preferably) or with one other person
  (no more than 1) to an unfamiliar cultural place.
  This could include a social event, outdoor
  experience (e.g., ethnic music festival),
  religious service, or a number of other
  opportunities where it is possible to feel the
  other. The experience must last at least 3
  hours. The purpose of the activity is to gain
  insight into how it feels to be in a
  linguistically/culturally unfamiliar situation.
  You will write a 1-2 page (single space)
  reflection describing and reflection on their
  experience as guided by the rubric.

10
Learn about the country before you go!!!!

• http//74.125.45.104/search?qcache3DW9rlKQtDkJw
  ww.yachana.org/research/handbook.pdf22southamer
  icanhandbook222Becuadorhlenctclnkcd1gl
  usclientfirefox-a
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador
• https//www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world
  -factbook/geos/ec.html
• https//www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world
  -factbook/geos/ec.html
• http//lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/ectoc.html