Intercultural Communication and Pragmatics Activities

This playlist on YouTube, produced by the University of Oregon's Centre for Applied Second Language Studies, consists of  nineteen short videos intended for independent learning by students.  The topics covered would provide a very helpful introduction to intercultural communication and pragmatics, and could be assigned for independent viewing or as part of small group discussion.  The various themes would allow for interesting and lively cross-cultural comparisons between rules around politeness, backchannelling, social distance, discourse markers and more.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *