Response to Dr. Margaret Lieb's Article - 10/02/2019

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Dr. Margaret Lieb's article, Culture Distance and Cultural Dimensions in Diverse ELT Environments: A Quantitative Investigation, had a lot of really insightful findings. In particular, Dr. Lieb discusses the growth of diverse learning environments and how this has an influence on learning and teaching styles. What I thought was most interesting while reading about diverse learning environments and their effects on learning and teaching styles, is the positive and negative results. For instance, Dr. Lieb analyzes "cultural-moral difference" and how this may become an issue if one cultural group's morals were to displease another (3). Reading about "cultural-moral difference," was something that had never previously occurred to me. I just assumed that most of the teaching styles I've learned about so far would be acceptable for most students. Now I know, that if you were to teach a class that was initially student-oriented, for example, and switched it to a teacher-oriented approach, this would potentially displease the students and create adverse effects on their learning.

Another aspect of Dr. Margaret's article that I found to be valuable was her analysis of value orientations between East Asian and Western countries. According to Dr. Lieb, "the driving force behind cultural differences in cognition is differences in social orientation, or the extent to which societies are independent or interdependent" (4). After reading this section, it became more transparent as to why it is vital to have a professional relationship with your students. Without understanding who your students are, it will not only become difficult for you to teach them, but it will become harder for them to become proficient in the material you are teaching.

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