Understanding how language works is the main objective of our course. Thanks to linguistics, we study different branches, mainly dealing with the history of grammar or the symbolic representation of language, but sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics give us a deep understanding of how people use their own language in their everyday life and how different cultures make people’s language different but authentic. 

When we grow up, we learn how to use language depending on the country we were born in, our ethnicity, religion, or our class backgrounds, even just being female or male gives us the awareness that there are different ways of speaking. 

This course is designed to give teachers an understanding of what cross-cultural communication means, how every single individual such as children, teens, adults, or even older people are involved in the greater world of communication and what is defined as a conversational style.

Analyzing everyday interactions and adapting to other communication styles could be the key to better understanding the problem in a conversation and avoiding all the negative consequences that different conversation styles can cause.