Glossary

Communication
(from Latin 'communis' meaning to share) is when information, thoughts, feelings and messages are exchanged and expressed by speech, visuals, signals, writing or behaviour (body language)

Globalisation

The expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness across world time and space. The shrinking of time and space. e).

Sustainability

Sustainability is based on a simple principle: Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment. Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic and other requirements of present and future generations.

Glocalisation

A combining of global and local aspects. A global service that is adapted to suit the local need. Globalisation has gained specific importance it is necessary teachers recognise this and respond to it by incorporating it into the classroom.

Tolerance

Tolerance or toleration a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.

Lingua franca
English as a lingua franca (ELF) can be defined as “an additionally acquired language system which serves as a common means of communication for speakers of different first languages”. ELF is also “defined functionally by its use in intercultural communication rather than formally by its reference to native-speaker norms” whereas English as a foreign language aims at meeting native speaker norms and gives prominence to native speaker cultural aspects.

Culture shock
A reaction to stress which is caused by the new and what is unfamiliar. Is the emergence of tensions and feelings of discomfort resulting from having to meet the daily needs in ways that a person is not used. 

Glocalisation
A combining of global and local aspects. A global service that is adapted to suit the local need. Globalisation has gained specific importance it is necessary teachers recognise this and respond to it by incorporating it into the classroom. 

Stereotype:

a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing
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Prejudice:

preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

Innovation:

creating new a new method, idea, product, etc.
 

Entrepreneurial: 

characterized by the taking of financial risks in the hope of profit; enterprising.

Collaboration:

the action of working with someone to produce something.