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%TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE 781218
Inter-cultural understanding is prompted by the
teaching of foreign languages. In the absence of inter-
cultural understanding the members of different cultures
may suspicious, distrustful, and seek to achieve
invulnerability through the use of defensive techniques.
Such defensive measures are likely to be perceived as
threatening and occasion further suspicion, distrust, and
counter-defensive measures. In instances of extreme
inter-cultural misunderstanding the members of the
cultures may be lead into participating in violent attacks
upon each other in tragic efforts to settle
misunderstandings. International ways are merely the
most objective and obvious examples of such violent
attacks. Often the attacks take the form of violent
communications in foreign languages which are
misunderstood by many of those involved.
Not all foreign languages are verbal languages. Non-
verbal languages are often foreign to us. Different
cultures use different non-verbal languages as well as
different verbal languages. Two people may share the same
verbal language, but not use the same non-verbal language.
Two people may share the same non-verbal language, but not
use the same verbal language---although this latter case
is probably not as common as the former.
Foreign languages are best taught by persons who are
thoroughly familiar with the language to be taught and the
language of the students who are to learn the foreign
language. This is true regardless of whether the
languages in question are verbal or nonverbal. It is
possible to learn a foreign language by cultural
immersion, as infants learn; yet it appears that with age
we become less adoptive of such learning. In fact, it
would seem that the ability to learn foreign languages
even with the benefit of instruction tends to decrease
with age. Thus it is important to help young children
learn such languages as they may need in their adult
lives---be those languages verbal and/or nonverbal, and
associated with different nations as cultures, or with
subcultures defined by work-place, profession, educational
training, geography, etc. If we do not learn enough
languages as young people we are likely to misunderstand
each other as adults.
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