Lecturer:

Robert A. Eckhart

Time:

2019-05-2619:30:00

Venue:

Building B-206, South Campus

Lecturer      Profile

Robert   A. Eckhart taught at Ohio State University for more than 20 years. From  2013 to 2015, he served as Executive Director of the Ohio State University  Integrated ESL Program, leading 50 teachers to provide teaching services to   thousands of students.

He   has taught writing and intermediate essay writing for US students and   international students. He has taught legal writing for pre-law students, and   provided English communication and writing for international graduate   students, MBA students, law school masters, medical center postdoctoral   fellows and researchers.

He   has over 15 years of leadership and practical experience in providing English   proficiency to China’s leading universities. At Ohio State University, he has   been providing professional and culturally diverse services to Chinese   students for many years and has received highly praise from Chinese students.   From July to August, 2019, he will lead his team to Xidian University to   carry out a three-week English summer camp for improving students' English   communication skills.

Lecture      Abstract

Language and Communcation are two different things. For   decades, language learners have been working hard to memorize vocabulary and   grammar while neglecting the cultural aspect of language learning which allows   for successful communication in a foreign language. The Performed Culture   Approach to language teaching and learning suggests that when learning a   language, we are actually learning a culture...and there are many   communication performances within a culture which are all based in the rules   of that target culture. Using many examples from studying 5 languages and   traveling to almost 40 countries, I will help the audience gain a new   perspective on language learning and teaching.