to develop cultural awareness by critically evaluating newspaper articles from different regional and socio-cultural contexts, and in different languages;
how to relate and interpret Internet resources for intercultural comparison, by juxtaposing online newspapers from your own country and from another country;
to look at "culture" from different perspectives;
how to share and discuss your assumptions about cultural practices with people with your own socio-cultural background and with people with a different socio-cultural background.
to use a forum for discussing intercultural issues with native speakers.
You are going to prepare a summary of today's news in the target language. You will also observe how online newspapers in the country of the target language present a particular event.
