Hyunjin Kim

5/18/16
Title: Cultures
Context: the handout was given as homework for the Business English elective class.
Description of Artifact:
This artifact includes an article(context) on the front page and various type of exercises
on the back side. First, the article is retrieved from the Financial Times; it is about the difficulties
of cross-cultural communication, but still more focused on challenges of doing businesses due to
communication. On the other side of a handout, there are seven questions provided. The first exercise is True or false questions based on the reading. The second activity is completing the table
with words form of 2 paragraphs from the reading. The third exercise is using the second exercise, matching the meanings to words. The fourth task is finding the most important point in first
and second paragraphs of the article. The fifth exercise if finding two-word expressions from the
reading. The sixth question is yes/no question with explanation and finally the seventh task is
answering to questions by finding information from the passage given.
This handout was already given at the previous class, and the teacher went over the answers as a whole class at the beginning of the class by calling each students name.
New ideas, information, or awareness from this artifact:
First of all, I liked that this artifact included true or false questions. For students, true or
false questions based on reading are somewhat not easy on the account of the fact that they
should understand the most part of the article. However, I think this type of question could help
students to have the better understanding of the article by checking the facts through self-ques-

tioning. Next, I cast doubt on the effectiveness of the second exercise. I liked the idea that includes some vocabulary from the reading, but I am not sure that asking for different from of
words is helpful since no lesson were given or will be given on this in the class. Furthermore,
selected vocabulary was not quite related to the business English either. On the contrary, I liked
the third exercise that asks to match the meanings to the vocabulary used in the previous exercise. It was interesting to see how this artifact created two separated exercise using the same vocabulary list.
Reflection on how this will impact your approach to teaching and learning:
I liked that all of the exercises from this artifact had different forms of questions. It includes the comprehension check questions to finding main ideas and practicing vocabulary from
one article(content). Invariably, it is very difficult to create new kinds of questions using one
content from my experience of making lesson plan. I learned the various type of questions that I
can use for my future teaching through this artifact. I am not sure if I can apply these question
types into all skills or level, but I certainly would like to use this artifact when I need to create
questions based on the article.