ABSTRACT
As Western universities admit more international students, the one place where students from a range of cultural backgrounds are likely to encounter each other is when asked to work together in groups. By setting group tasks, teachers create the nexus where student diversity can challenge the learning opportunities for all members of the group and provide a chance for them genuinely to learn from and with each other as described in Chapter 8. In the previous chapter, the author described how the group’s task itself focused on students’ cultural difference. Whilst not as straightforward as the many issues raised made clear, this kind of group work at least makes explicit the international and intercultural dimensions of the task and foregrounds the students’ cultural backgrounds.
