Article Summary Worksheet

Name : Amelia

Nim : 0142S1C021003

Directions: Complete one Article Summary Worksheet for each article read.
Remember to staple a copy of the article to the back of the worksheet. Use the
copy to highlight, underline, and make notes as you read.

 Bibliographic Information

 Author(s) of article: Dian Ratnasari

 Title of article: THE IMPORTANCE OF CROSS-CULTURAL

UNDERSTANDING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING IN THE ASIAN
CONTEXT

 Name of magazine, newspaper, website, etc. containing the article:

https://journal2.um.ac.id/index.php/jbs/article/view/4914/pdf

 Date article was published and page number: Vol 46, No 2 (2018)

 Summary Information

 Briefly state the main idea or thesis presented in this article:

Learning a foreign language does not only include grammar or

vocabulary, but also life skills for communication. Therefore, mastering
culture along with learning the language is very important.

 Summarize the most important information ideas, facts, etc.

presented in this article:

Cross-cultural understanding is the ability to recognize the (cultural)

differences, make correct interpretation and react properly to people or
situations in the communication with these communities (Sugirin, 2009).
Cross-cultural understanding is important not only in communication
between people by different nationality or language but also people of
the same nationality but have different culture. Cross-cultural
understanding should be taught in the classroom. This process can be
done in several ways. Cross-cultural Understanding in the Classroom In
the classroom context, teachers have an important role to help the
students achieving the cross-cultural understanding. It becomes more
important in a foreign language class, especially in the beginner class,
because the students barely know the language. Teachers can “teach”
the culture using different approaches.
 Personal Reaction

 What was the most surprising/interesting thing you learned from this
article?

There is some interesting material in this article, one of which is,

Teaching culture with a communicative approach is part of foreign
language classes. Cultural material is taught together with foreign
language material. This is because the communicative approach
concentrates on achieving communicative competence. The goal of
teaching is fluency in communication. The communicative competence
referred to here is the ability of students to use foreign languages in
everyday life. The content of teaching in this approach is the daily
activities of the target language person. This knowledge is very helpful
in supporting language use, for example the way people who use the
target language live, spend their free time, and so on.

 What question(s) do you have after reading this article? What would
you like to learn more about?

What is an effective way to apply learning or approaches about culture

in the classroom? and can this also be applied in high school or junior
high school?

 What other keywords/topics for further research did you find reading
this article?

culture teaching, cross-cultural, the importance of understanding culture_