Minimizing Perceptual Mismatches

I really enjoyed this chapter of Kumaravadivelu's book because it looked into the mismatches you could encounter in your classroom. There can often be mismatches between teacher perceptions and learner perceptions of what is available to learn according to Kuma, and I fully agree with him. The way the learners percieve the usefulness of classroom events plays a big role in perceptual mismatches in the classroom. Most perceptual mismatches occur between teacher agenda and learning outcome. According to Kuma though most of the time these mismatches can be corrected right away, he has 3 pedagogic insights about mismatches that are they are unavoidable, they are identifiable, and they are manageable. I believe him that they can be changed to correct the mismatch in the classroom. There are 10 different mismatches that can occur which are cognitive, communicative, linguistic, pedagogic, strategic, cultural, evaluative, procedural, instructional, and attitudinal. Kuma then ends the chapter explaining to us some microstrategies for minimizing perceptual mismatches. This section of the chapter I always love, even though we have only had a couple chapters so far with this at the end I find it very useful to see where these microstrategies can be applied in normal daily life.