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1、跨文化交际在英语教学中的运用Application of Intercultural Communication in English TeachingContentsAbstract.1Key words.1I. Introduction.2II. Importance of the Intercultural Communication in English Teaching.21. The goal of cross-culture.22. Problems exist in cross-cultural teaching.3 3. The reasons for the cultura
2、l unawareness.4III. Teachers Worries in English Teaching and the Solutions.71. Teachers worries.72. Teachers roles.73. Possible solutions.9IV. Improvements for Culture Education in English Teaching.91. Cultivation of culture awareness.92. Students culture awareness.103. Teachers culture awareness.10
3、V. Conclusion.11References.12Application of Intercultural Communicationin English TeachingAbstract: As the world undergoing both dramatic internal exchanges and unparalleled degrees of global integration, Intercultural Communication Studies seems uniquely posed to help make sense of these changes. L
4、anguage studying is reflected in specific countries, specific national culture, values, customs, and act as a mirror of the most important cultural manifestations. Since geography, social systems, productivity, cultural traditions, national psychological and personality characteristics in different
5、cultures, these differences often lead the Chinese students to make mistakes in using English. And learn a foreign language, to understand their language of the soul, is the language study goal, that means understand their social culture. But due to the examination-oriented education in China, espec
6、ially in foreign language teaching, which remains the neglect of the cross-cultural awareness and unreasonable training methods, students often have a poor understanding of cross-cultural differences in areas, such as the word meaning and the custom abroad, which can eventually lead to ignorance of
7、English language background. According to the aftermath of poor cross-cultural awareness, the cultivation of cross-culture consciousness should be drawn more attention in English teaching. Keywords: culture； intercultural communication； cross-culture consciousness摘 要: 随着世界范围内各个不同社会经历着巨大的内部变化和前所未有的全球
8、整合，跨文化交际学应运而生，合理地解释了所有这些变化的根源。语言学习可以反映在特定的国家、特定民族文化、价值观以及习俗上是重要文化表征的一面镜子。由于不同文化在地理环境、社会制度、生产力、文化传统、个性特征以及民族心理的差异，从而常导致中国学生在英语运用上出错。而学好一门外语,其目的, 要懂得他们的“心灵之语言”，即了解他们的社会文化。但当今中国的教育，尤其是中学的应试教育，仍延续不合理的训练方法，对学生的跨文化意识培养有所忽视，学生缺乏对地区文化差异的了解，包括词义和风俗等的理解，从而最终导致对英语文化背景的无知，鉴于这种后果，跨文化意识的培养应给予更高度的重视。关键字: 文化；跨文化交际；
9、 跨文化意识I. IntroductionAny country or nation has its own unique traditional culture including values, modes of thinking, moral rules, customs, life styles, etc, which form the difference between different nations on culture. Language is the carrier of culture, and culture is the symbol of it. Intercul
10、tural communication is the communication between people whose cultural perceptions and symbolic systems are distinct enough to alter the communication event. Frequently, the item cross-cultural communication is used when referring to communication between people from different cultures. For this hot
11、 issue, the foreign language teaching develop faster and faster with the international cultural and economic development, intercultural communication is becoming hotter and hotter, we need to learn something international and universal, when the west meets east, north meets south, different cultures
12、 and information exchange quickly and affectively, culture communication and personal exchange enforce us to change our own ideas and the ways of thinking. On the way to the information period, we need to advocate and protect our own cultures and values, at the same time, learn to understand and acc
13、ept the international ones. In English teaching, intercultural communication in one of the most important parts for the English learners as well as teachers. For the teachers, the requirements are changed; their roles are becoming complicated. There must be obstacles and problems in the way of teach
14、ing.Most misunderstandings are not very easy to overcome and some of them go beyond superficial differences. There are something deeply rooted in ones history and nation characteristics rather than the superficial phenomenon. In order to avoid the cultural conflicts during the communication between
15、different languages system, we have to learn the background of the intercultural communication. The language authorities pay their strong attention on this issue. Intercultural communication is becoming more and more urgent in English teaching. In short, we are concerned with the similarities that u
16、nite us as well as the differences that divide us. II. Importance of the Intercultural Communication in English Teaching1. The goal of cross-cultureThe goal is to make students aware of cultural knowledge, understand not only other countrys social norms, common rules of conduct, values and cultural
17、structures of social positioning, but also the identifications of important facts in the culture and have the capacities to distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable culture by the cultural knowledge in intercultural communication or cross-cultural communication. In China, because of the limit
18、ed English environment, most foreign languages learning happen just in school scene, the vast majority of learners rarely have the opportunity to target cultural community learning, work and life, and most teachers can only stay in the classrooms, books, their goal is just export the lifeless langua
19、ge point to students, especially in high school. However, in the new-standard-based teaching, the goal of language teaching is to help students develop the intercultural communication skills, and interpersonal skills on the language forms of words the importation of cultural objectives can insert th
20、e language learning process. Hammerly (1982) summarized the objective of the 10 teaching culture, these goals can become a culture of the objectives: (1) Understand the word and phrase of cultural connotations;(2) Understand the code under normal circumstances;(3) Get the development of cultural int
21、erest and objectives ofdeepening understanding of cultural goals; (4) Cross-cultural communication to understand the distinction;(5) Understand cultural differences and customs;(6) Identify and understand similar research topics;(7) Institute a comprehensive view of cultural goals;(8) Act with the o
22、bjective of cultural exposition on the assessment capabilities;(9) Properly treat different views of the other culture; (10) Cultivate academic research capacity of the target culture;2. Problems exist in cross-cultural teaching The problems in English teaching are that they emphasize on primarily t
23、eaching English vocabularies and English grammars; most teachers focus on the sentence structures and grammars knowledge analysis, and neglect of cross-cultural interpersonal skills training. Some teachers think the cross-cultural penetration is a waste of time, the time of one class of is limited,
24、if talking about cultural knowledge in the classroom, and they can not complete courses on time, and therefore affect the scores of students. The phenomenons most can be seen in high school class-room teaching, and the high-school study period as a basic foundation of second language study play an i
25、mportance role in further English study. Those cause our special attention on high school students study.Moreover, foreign language applications will inevitably involve different cultural practices, different world outlooks, and different ways of thinking, different political beliefs and religious b
26、eliefs. However, for a long time, the mother tongue always consciously or unconsciously involved, because our students live in the mother tongue culture, and China is lack of the environment that everyone could speak English. When we come to the international communication, the United States people
27、often do not understand our culture, Chinese either, those result in the actual cross-cultural communication in which students often have some “cultural errors”. Our teaching material do not pay attention to offer a humanistic content and sentences using, which even mislead our students, so they are
28、 still follow the incorrect material and writing or speaking “Chinglish”，In this sense，I think，maybe we can say the problems is not made by the students, but the society and educator should take more responsibility for the consequence.In a word, the education method should be renewed, that means the
29、 “exam-oriented-education” should be replaced，otherwise the new method of teaching will not be a practical reformation3. The reasons for the culture unawareness3.1 The cause of mistakes made by Chinese students in cross-cultural communication involves both cultural and communicating knowledge. Only
30、knowing different cultural features, and how to get a successful communicating with members of other cultures with sincerely “desire”, can our students farthest overcome cultural differences caused by different cultural barriers.The mistakes for Chinese high-school students made in cross-cultural co
31、mmunication maybe result from the following reasons.3.2 Lack of knowledge and understanding of different cultural differences, their teachers and their exam papers seldom tell them how to deal with other cultures.Two kinds of them, English language and Chinese cultural common differences in which st
32、udents often make the same mistake. First, the title in English and Chinese languages cultural differences exists. In informal occasion, Chinese and Westerners will directly call people names, to show the close relationship. Chinese think it is impolite to call strangers given name. Therefore, when
33、Chinese people directly called foreigners given names，they will feel sorry for the people with feeling inadequate or immodest, but the fact is different. As Helen oatey (1987) said: “If the West does not directly call names, they will not be pleased, because they feel that do not directly call names
34、 that do not want to make friends with them”. Secondly, differences between cultural greetings which we will explore in the next section. 3.2.1 Holding the Chinese way of thinking, transplant it to the English expression, commonly known as “Chinglish” equate to neglected cultural differences. As a m
35、ember of cultural observers, another culture, he often used own culture model to judge and interpret the observed phenomena. When the two cultures conflict with each other, these students are apt to use native model to understand “Greece” culture, thought and expression thus often misleading. (Lixin
36、gzhong, 2000)For example, regards others morning!Good morning, did you have breakfast?What breakfast? Indeed, the English-speaking countries will be based on specific environment, people will say “Good morning, class! Good morning, Everybody! Good morning, Mr. /Mars /Miss Green”.English words are of
37、ten used in the greetings Hi/Hello! “How are you? Good morning! (Good afternoon!) Good evening (Good night!)” above in the Chinese language greetings is rarely used, and we Chinese people in the party, commonly used are: “have you eaten?”This is the Chinese peoples common greetings. In fact, they do
38、 not really want to know the experience of the others meals. However, in English, the language is not in such kind of the way in greetings, and invite each other to express the meaning of a piece of dining. Another common Chinese language regards language is “where are you going?” If ask Westerners
39、in this way, they are often unhappy and will consider such issues in their affair. Instead, they talk about the weather. Therefore, in the West do not understand cultural differences, is inevitably have many misunderstandings. Conscientiously study and the correct use of English greetings difference
40、s are particularly important. Moreover, the West cross-cultural communication is usually the way through conversation. “Teacher” is the title phrase that can not be used. Chinese people often greet their teachers “good morning, teacher”. In fact, it is incorrect, in English language, “teacher” can n
41、ot be used as a title, they usually use “Mr. or Miss” in the class.3.2.2 Lack of real language environment.As everyone has realized, English is not our first language, the language is restricted to the classroom practice and presentation, due to the lack of practical language environment. Because of
42、 the traditional teaching methods-Law tradition impact on my classroom teaching as a “spoon-fed” education, classroom teachers become the “voice” of teachers reading of prepared statements, the students learn only blind, passively language information. As an international language, English should be
43、 dynamic and colorful. Not only just in its grammar and fixed sentence ,but also in the setting of a good topic for students to create the atmosphere of learning English, students wont feel learning English is tasteless, lose interest in learning English. In this way, students communicate with teach
44、ers and class-mates more than before, which can improve their spoken English and correct their mistakes.Students with high score, but little ability, divorced from practical application, while their capacity for test even far exceeds the English countries students. 3.2.4 Most teachers themselves are
45、 lack of the horizon of worldwide, they are accustom to the old teaching method of mechanical information export ,they havent realize in current situation they should improve themselves to catch on with the modern society and meet the need of students, which can make the students lose more interest
46、in English study.3.2.5 Say stop to exam-oriented-education. China today need a person who can contribute himself to unique creations, not a mechanical follower. Reform will not work until the old educational style goes to an end.3.2.6 Giving a deep culture impression to students by using of teaching
47、 tools. Teachers who teach cross-cultural knowledge should collect relevant culture material in the shape of the sound, written file, documentary and so on. Powerful multimedia can fully make good use of showing teaching materials to students in three-dimension, it is becoming clear when the United States map presenting its geographical profiles on careen; the practices are found easily than ever before, and other cultural background will b
