TY - JOUR AU - Murray, Garold L. AU - Bollinger, Deborah J. PY - 2001/10/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Developing Cross-Cultural Awareness: Learning Through the Experiences of Others JF - TESL Canada Journal JA - TESL Canada VL - 19 IS - 1 SE - In the Classroom/En Classe DO - 10.18806/tesl.v19i1.920 UR - https://teslcanadajournal.ca/index.php/tesl/article/view/920 SP - 62-72 AB - This article offers communicative activities designed to enhance the cross-cultural awareness of Japanese university students whose language levels range from beginner to intermediate. Facilitating the development of cross-cultural awareness of foreign language students who have never lived in another culture or even visited one can be problematic. Although many educators have responded to the challenge with a knowledge-based approach, a recent study suggests a syllabus that emphasizes constructivist, process-oriented tasks would be more effective. In their efforts to implement the latter approach, the authors have devised activities that range from student-generated interviews of a guest speaker and e-mail exchanges with target language speakers to amini-video ethnography project that focuses on the cross-cultural experiences of others. The article outlines these activities and concludes with a brief evaluation of their effectiveness based on the learners' reactions. ER -