English teachers’ experiences handling mainstream classes and those with minority students differ as students’ learning communication styles vary. This study explored the lived teaching practices of purposively selected non-English majors to Filipino learners from different cultural groups: Mamanwa, Manobo, Hinigaon, Kamayo, Surigaonon, Muslim, Bisaya. The in-depth investigation through a pheno...

1. To examine the norms and history within a variety of ethnic and minority groups, including Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, South Asian Americans, Arab Americans, African Americans and African immigrants, Latinos/Chicanos, Native Americans/American Indians, individuals of multiracial descent, and lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered individuals 2. To review cultural idioms, formal and in...

CULTURE: Everything that human beings (and possibly some other species) do that isn’t motivated solely by natural instinct. Sleeping is natural, not cultural, but sleeping using a pillow is cultural. Eating acorns to stave off starvation is natural; eating acorn bread is cultural. Laughing is natural; laughing at a knock-knock joke is cultural. Culture includes tool-making and -using, creative ...