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1. Biography of each of the members of the group

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1. Biography of each of the members of the group

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Maria Paula

I'm Maria Paula Lozano Cárdenas, but people used to call me "Mapu",  I'm 22 years old, I was born in Bogota, Colombia. I live with my mother and my grandmother and with my two pets that I love very much, a cat named Milú, and a dog named Bella, I really love animals. I really like the languages, specially English, I think it's a global language and it can be spoken with ease in other countries. As for academics, I'm studying the ninth semester of my degree in Spanish and foreign languages, I consider myself a responsible person and committed to the things that I'm very passionate about, such as teaching.

Maria Fernanda

My name is Maria Fernanda Cepeda, I was born on May 2nd, 2000, I'm 21 years old, I'm currently studying Spanish and foreign languages, I'm in the ninth semester. One of my favorite hobbies is dancing, I really like music and fruits; I have a sister and a brother and I'm the youngest, I have 2 nephews, I really like to share with my family, my parents are the most important people in my life, they make me very happy and I always want to return happiness to them with my achievements; we live in Altablanca, Usaquen. I consider myself a smiling and friendly person, I like to meet new people, I like to listen to people and I love to laugh. When I was a kid I always wanted to be a teacher, my older sister has a kindergarden and I had the opportunity to work there for 3 years as an English teacher, it was a very enriching experience personally and professionally.

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Culture Awareness

It's about the way we recognize and understand that each of us has different values ​​that are shaped by different cultural backgrounds. We also believe that "normal" behavior in one country can be quite different in another.

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3. Topic explanation (connected to our lives)

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3. Topic explanation (connected to our lives)

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Being culturally aware of cultural differences are essential skills in our daily lives as we empower ourselves to develop successful relationships from cultural diversity. In accordance with the above, there have been moments in which the need for cultural awareness becomes evident, for example, María Paula has never left the country, therefore she has not had direct contact with other cultures, however, she has had the opportunity to interact with people who belong to a different culture, and it is sometimes confusing to understand the differences present. On the other hand, María Fernanda did have the opportunity to be in the United States and shows that the ways of behavior of Americans are very different from those of Colombians, in addition, she has had contact with philippiness and ensures that not knowing Spanish is very difficult to communicate in a country like Colombia. For this reason, respecting and understanding other cultures is important to make coexistence better.

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Camilo, Archie and Lao

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Venus really liked Buffalo Wings food

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Importance of Cultural Awareness for Successful Intercultural Communication

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Importance of Cultural Awareness for Successful Intercultural Communication

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1. What is the exact APA reference for the academic article?

Al-Sofi, Bakr. (2015). Importance of Cultural Awareness for Successful Intercultural Communication. Bangladesh Research Foundation Journal [ISSN 2224-8404 (Print), 2305-1566 (Online)], Vol. 4, No.2, August 2015. 4. 1-14.

2. Write a detailed description of the process you followed to find the academic article; also include the name of the data base and reasons why you chose it.

In order to find our article, we have decided to search EBSCO for documents related to consciousness in terms of intercultural communication and interaction. We read 3 articles in which we could find important information, however we ended up deciding only one, which was more connected with our project.

3. What are the keywords in the article?

Culture, Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication, Hofstede's Dimensions

4. Write a brief summary of the main ideas contained in the text.

Culture awareness has become an important focus of modern language education, a shift that reflects a greater awareness of the inseparability of language and culture, and the need to prepare students for intercultural communication. The paper reports on an ongoing study into the presence and status of cultural understanding in EFL teaching. In this paper, the underlying assumptions and influences of culture awareness in Language teaching and learning critically analyzed.

5. What does the academic article suggest as findings/conclusions/prospects?

It is determined that generating a change from the traditional position to the intercultural position in the today's world, like the modernization has increased human mobility and expanded contact with people from different cultures. In other words, cross-cultural communication has become a distinct feature of globalization. People have differences in cultural background, life style, education, political and economic conditions, etc. Therefore, it is not surprising that people encounter many difficulties and obstacles in mutual understanding when communicating in different contexts. .

6. What are the links of the article to interculturality and multilingualism?

Within cultural interaction, a cultural awareness must be had and with it a cultural intelligence, and the article proposes to implement a guide or a framework to build a cultural understanding based mainly on process skills, in which the  managing diversity is an issue that needs to be emphasized. With this, people are increasingly aware of the need to understand other people’s behavior and their culture culturally.

7. How is the article connected to your semester project?

Taking into account that our project is aimed at a behavioral way in terms of awareness in the way of interacting with other cultures, this article analyzes that culture cannot be ignored in the field of cross-cultural communication, because it has a universal influence on the communication process. It shapes behavior, ideas, attitudes, and general lifestyles. Therefore, it seems reasonable to make full use of culture, because it is an important part of intercultural communication.

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Shemshadsara, Z. G. (2012). Developing Cultural Awareness in Foreign Language Teaching. English Language Teaching, 5(3), 95–99.

Michael Byram (1997). ‘Cultural awareness’ as vocabulary learning. The Language Learning Journal

Pasa la voz (2017). Aprendamos Creole con los youtubers de #SANANDRÉS. Recuperado de: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp3iaB2mBKs

Canal zoom. (s.f.) Raizal, inmersión cultura (Documental). Recuperado de: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=092UbgZ7ln4

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Aprendamos Creole con los youtubers de #SANANDRÉS

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvsJbPJ67TM