An Intercultural E-Mail Exchange: Student Attitudes and Perceptions
T his study describes an intercultural e-mail exchange between a beginning Spanish course at Juniata College and an intermediate English class at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. I will explain why and how the exchange was initiated and will then describe Juniata students’ attitudes toward their own and Mexican cultures and their perceptions of the exchange itself. Finally, I will offer suggestions for implementing a similar exchange, applicable to courses from a variety of disciplines.
In this paper, I examine the possibility of restructuring our premise about cross cultural design and explore a possible new way to look at how we can create products in one culture and yet have the whole 'flat world' use it!