Teaching a Growing a Population of Non-Native English-Speaking Students in American Universities: Cultural and Linguistic Challenges

Maria Cristina Fava

doi:10.6092/issn.2039-9715/6573

Teaching a Growing a Population of Non-Native English-Speaking Students in American Universities: Cultural and Linguistic Challenges

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Maria Cristina Fava
Maria Cristina Fava is an assistant professor at the Eastman School of Music. Her research considers aspects of the multifaceted social, economic, political, and intellectual contexts of American musical life during the twentieth century, including the intersections of music and politics that characterized the Great Depression Era and the effects of McCarthyism on film music composers. She has published in American Music, Journal of the Society for American Music, and Musica/Realtà, and she has presented her research at various meetings of the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2039-9715/6573

Keywords:

Multiculturalism, Non-native English speaking students, Cultural challenges, Teaching western art music

Abstract

The increasing number of non-native English speaking students in American universities, mostly from Asian countries, presents unprecedented challenges and calls for an in-depth study on how we teach western art music history. This essay challenges some aspects of liberal multiculturalism and proposes the creation of channels of communication that allow non-native English speaking students to understand the premises of a Eurocentric system of knowledge without undermining their own cultural backgrounds.

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2016-12-30

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Fava, M. C. (2016). Teaching a Growing a Population of Non-Native English-Speaking Students in American Universities: Cultural and Linguistic Challenges. Musica Docta, 6(1), 93–97. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2039-9715/6573

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Vol. 6 (2016)

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