Common sense is not common for me in two senses:
1. whatever sense it is it isn't held in common by everyone, and
2. the notion seems odd, in these postmodern times.
I also agree that simulations can be extremely useful ways to
sensitize people at least a bit to the culturally different
experience. Do you know the simulation game Baffa Baffa? I'm not
sure who publishes it, but it does a pretty good job of staging
an encounter with a foreign culture. Perhaps ESL xmca'ers know
of simulation games specific to L2 learning.
It's awfully nice to hear from you on your way home.
- Judy
Judy Diamondstone
Graduate School of Education
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
10 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu
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