3.5. Clarifying Misunderstandings. Readings
What happens in a higher education context?
Initially, lecturers may hesitate between two different attitudes to adopt in classroom occurrences. They may react on the bases of equal treatment of both parts of the problem, trying not to point out to the identity of the migrant student. But this method seems to be totally unrealistic. Lecturers need to address all different cultural codes of students and be aware that preventing and managing misunderstandings will be a difficult task.
In fact, those misunderstandings may even extend to other social issues like, for example, gender relations, socialization, religion, and occur in verbal as well as non-verbal communication.