An excellent resource for developing students' intercultural understanding: What You Should NEVER Give to a Chinese Person

In order to help students develop their intercultural understanding, which is an essential skill in a globalised world, teachers need to encourage students to compare and contrast the target and their own cultures, to reflect on students’ own cultures, and to ‘create personal meanings about one’s experiences, communicate those meanings, explore those meanings and reshape them in response to others’ (Scarino & Liddicoat, 2009:23).  The following is an excellent resource for teachers to induce the discussion.