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7 Students’
7 attitudes a
culture shock

‘ CAPILANO COLLEGE instructor Al Oberndorf
can’t speak Chinese, but that didn’t stop him
from going to China to teach.

mo The teacher
a recently spent four months
Peo in China as part of a Cana-

2 dian teaching team, instruc-
a ting 80 mid- to high-level
Chinese officials in business
management skills.

Classes were taught using
simultaneous translation,
and despite what many peo-
ple would think, Oberndorf
says the pace was only
slightly slower than in a reg-
ular Canadian classroom.
He says the students he was

39-year-old

‘ teaching had different at- had anticipated.”
titudes towards education Two-wheeled transporta-
than students in North tion is still the norm in
America do. China. Bicycles are “‘stiff 7

“They're much more ag-
gressive and ambitious to

learn,’ Oberndorf says. now have cars or trucks for

“Homework is taken on their day-to-day business ‘-
: with a great deal of zest."’ use. 2
: Their zest, however, did “Socially, it’s a great, Soe Te _ coy

not spill over into the wonderful country,’ he INSTRUCTOR ‘Al Oberndorf proudly. displays .2 § r

classroom, he says. Unlike says, describing the Capilano College banuer from the Great Wall of China. °

his students here, Obern- friendliness of the people. Oberndorf. recently returned from a four month a

wo dorf’s Chinese students did
o not ask any questions, as
Bos they were used to just listen-
; ing to their instructor’s lec-
woe tures.
a, “They're very passive in
“re their role as students."’ But,
as the classes continued, he

: said his students became and talk to you,’’ he recalls. aren't a lot of people."’ But resume his teaching, and he ee
5 more involved. ‘*Towards For Oberndorf, the big- he adds, ‘‘You can go says he is really looking -
. the end of my stay we began gest ‘culture shock’? of his anywhere night or day forward to it — “Like ,
to get interaction.”* trip to China was how safe without fear."’ nothing | ever have before in
While in China, Obern- the country is. **There’s no He plans to return to my tife,’’ he says.

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dorf was struck by the coun-
try’s rapid rate of change.
“People there are coming
around to Western styles —
at least as they view them,’
he notes.

Chinese women are
beginning to wear more
cosmetics and perfumes, and
clothes are starting to
brighten up, he says. ‘‘There
was a lot more color than 1

very prevalent,”’ he says, but
notes that many enterprises

Often, farmers working in
the fields would stop their
plowing and ‘‘just come over
and talk.”

“Even if they knew only a
few words of English and
you knew only a few words
of Chinese they would try

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