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“It’s really hard to build small talk if you don’t have the cultural base to know what’s going on,” Pollock says.
The course is not designed as a structural language course—such as an ESL class—but rather seeks to help graduate students practice “oral communication” across cultural barriers, Maurer says.
At Harvard, foreign TFs face pedagogical and cultural differences that do not always stem from insufficient language skills, Maurer says.
BRIDGING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
There is another factor at work here. Yushu sits at what was the edge of the old Chinese empire, and to this day its predominant population is not Han, the ethnic group that rules the new China, but Tibetan. Indeed, the name Yushu, or "Jade Tree," is not what the...