| dc.description.abstract | When learning cultures of English, teachers usually only rely on general norms and behaviour of the
users (Ming Yuen: 2011) in that for in fact learning culture is sensitive and should be expansive so
that it can echo variations in its cultural dimensions. Moreover the context of English as an
international language (EIL) today legitimates learning materials to reflect multiple perspectives
inherent in EIL (Shin, Eslami, Chen: 2011) and accomodate the idea that both differences and
similarities have their own values. Drawing on my own teaching practices, I briefly discuss steps into
promoting cross-culturally sensitive English through the use of digital prhotographs. Digital
photographs, visually are very powerful, attractive, and massive today. Anchored in the tenets of
crosscultural understanding and discourse literacy, digital photographs serve as a mediating tool for
enhancing learners’ cultural awereness of the depicted cultural practices and their variations. | en_US |
