About Mrs. Howarth

I was born in Mexico, City. I have a bachelor's degree in Educational Psychology from The Universidad Pedagogica National. I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah in 2011. I am a student at the master's of Education, Culture, and Society with the ESL endorsement at the Univesity of Utah. I am studying my TESOL certification in BYU-Idaho. I am currently work for the Salt Lake School District.

In August, 2015 I am married to my husband Russell. We met in Salt Lake City and got married for time and eternity in Orlando Florida. He is my support. We like to go on hikes, go to the temple, go shopping and watch TV.

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Week 6: Response to "Personal Space Differences"

2/14/19 Big love, apparently, is in mutual trust and respect towards each other's personal space -Johnny Deep Professor Ivers talked about Personal space differences. The term generally refers to the physical distance between two people in a social, family, or work environment. In some places, there's hardly any personal space, and in some places, there's a lot of serious implication to not having personal space. According to research conducted by Dr. Holt and her colleague, and reported in the Journal of Neuroscience, part of the neural response to human faces moving towards us -into our personal space - involves the activation of particular neural network - the pariental-frontal network. There is a defined distance in which we are comfortable with the approach of a stranger. when an unfamiliar face passes that comfort zone, the neural signals begin to fire, creating feelings of discomfort, irritability, and anxiety. Debby Mayne gave us 12 general r...

Week 6: Response to Differences in Emotional Expresivity

2/11/19 http://tinyurl.com/yc4e2ro8 Emotional expressivity is one of the things that can be an easy misunderstanding and can cause conflict between people. For example, Hispanic culture is more tolerant to show affection in Public than the Middle East cultures. As an ESL or ELL teachers, we need to consider the different cultural emotions expressivity of our students to create an appropriate environment. Professor Ivers said: Emotional expressivity is one of the things that are more easily misunderstood than many other things in cross-cultural differences. It's very, very easy to interpret different ranges—to misinterpret different ranges of emotional expressivity. In some cultures shake a hand is important when we said hi to someone. For example: In Spain, people kiss in both cheeks someone to say hi or you meet it for the first time but maybe in other cultures could consider this offensive. As teachers, we need to consider that what y...

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