My first interview experience in class

Today I had a good time to work with Laci and Khalid, it was a great interview. During the interview with Laci, I found that Americans like spending time with their family during the festivals; they put their family in a very high position of them. And, Americans loves spends time with friends and do sports. When talked with Khalid, I could feel that most of Saudi's people have big family, such as two brothers and four sisters, that's a great shock to me. Most of Saudi Arabians were Muslim, so they never drunk alcohol and never went to bars. The interview with Laci was really smoothly that we could find a lot of words to say about one question. However, the interview with Khalid was not so good as the front one, sometimes we could not understand each other about what we said. I thought it was the matter of the language; both Khalid and I were not English speakers, so it would be a little bit difficult to communicate for us. In this way, I felt some kind of embarrassed, when there were no sounds between us. What should I say? Is it good that I ask him the question directly? When I directly asked Khalid the question, I felt it like question and answer, it was not a talk! So how can I deal with this problem? This kind of problem may happen in the real interview. Thinking about the interview with Laci, first I should be patient with warm smile which could make interviewees feel comfortable to talk. And then, when there are some words we don't understand between each other, I should explain detail or honestly ask the interviewee.

interview questions

1. When did you come to USA?
2. During these time, what national festivals you spent in USA? What your own country festivals you spent in  USA?
3. What's different you think between these two different kind of festival for you, which one you prefer?
4. What's your favorite native festival of your country?And how you spend it in USA?
5. Do you miss the food of your country? what's that?
6. What do you usually eat? like go to Garvey or outside restaurants? Or you cook by yourself?
7. How do you spend your free time?
8. How do you think life in USA? Do you like it or not? and why? ( did you get some troubles in USA)
9. How's your friendship in USA? ( international friends and American friends)
10. Do you have any plan about future? Do you mind share that?
11. How many child in your family?
12. How often do you connect with your family? How do you connect with them?
13. Do you think there are some different about family between your country and USA? How similar or what's the different?
14. Have you ever think of living in USA or marry an American?

top 3

1.Pakoul
http://191s18pakoul.blogspot.com/
2.Rashmi P
http://191s18rashmip.blogspot.com/
3.Emily Schleif
http://191s18emilys.blogspot.com/

interview objectives

 first I will ask the interviewees where are them come from, before the interview, and then
I would like to ask the interviewees theses topic:
1. national festival
    * what's the most important festival you think?
    * what's you favorite festival during different ages?
    * what do think about American festival? do you like them?
    * how do you spend time during the festival, and as we know you are in the USA?

2. daily life
    * where do you usually go for eat? what do you usually eat? do you like USA food?
    *how do you spend you free time?
    *what do you think of life in USA?
    * how do you think of international friendship? is easy for you to get the international friends/ native friends?
    *did you meet some troubles in the daily life? if so what are they?
    *do you have any plan about future? so if what are they?
 
(3. family
   *what's your think about family? how about the family in your country?
   *what do you think the family in the USA?)
 
   
 

Interview process

1. get every things about interview done
2. go to Lawrence Hall
3. looking for 3 students
4. introduce myself and tell them this interview
5. ask them would them like to help me
6. if them do, ask them what time is perfect; if them do not, anyway thank them for the good talking
7. make sure the batteries and tape are enough for the record
8. confirm the interview objectives
9. make sure my the heart thing I would like to ask
10. prepare a list for interviewees about the topic we will talk
11. reserve a quiet meeting room in MC
12. make sure prepare everything in the same between the interviewees and me, let them feel comfortable
13. meet the interviewees
14. interview begin

Make an outline

Topic: What is global communication and how has it promoted the globalization witnessed in the past ten years?

Intro: Global communication is become more and more important for human bings, there are even a lot of majors and careers be set for global communication. So what is global communication and how has it promoted the globalization witnessed in the past ten years?

Body:
1. What is global communication?
    * definition: "global communication is the process of transmitting and receiving information on a world-wide scale."
2. why does global communication work so well?
    * evolution of technology:
            transportation--- airplane
            information media--- internet, cellphone
            and so on.
       all these evolutive technology make communicate globally easier, faster,clearer and more effective.
    *global business
        the blooming of global communication makes it possible and easier for people to do the business around world, such as more people devote themselves to internetional business.
        on the other side, the growth of global business increase the development of the globalization.
3. what are the affects of global communication?
    *social interaction
         a better global communication brings people a socail interaction, people can get information from each other easier and communicate with other more often.
    *globalization
         Because global communication,people from all different country can share their culture, and there are the global culture and language in the world.

Conc: In a word, global communication is taking a more and more important role in the world, it also promote the globalization in the world-wide.

Learn from Diana Hacker-------clear sentence

               Sometimes the sentences I writed are very long, even though, other people still cannot understand the main idea of my sentences. From the clear sentence part, I learn how to make the sentence clearer and easy to know.
               Frist of all, I get to know that we should pay attention on what the sentence it is, it is passive or active. And then, we can make the sentence clearer by writing the subject names the actor. For instance, " The board of director acknowledged Martha's participation in the literacy program." on this sentence participation should be named by the board of directors not by ackowledge, so we should not say participation was acknowlefged by the board of directors.
               Secondly, we should know well about what you want to describe and write down that well-defined. Such as, who do what things? " the doctor saw scars" not others; "I designed the party invitations" not other else. So there must have subject in the sentence.
               In a word, sentence need to be logical, which means subject names the actor and subject have to be shown in the sentence. If it need to be passive, people should write in passive way; if it need to be active, people should write in active way. From that, people will know that who do what things, or what things should be done.