在英语教学中培养学习者的跨文化交际能力.docVIP

【标题】在英语教学中培养学习者的跨文化交际能力 【作者】 【关键词】跨文化交际能力；跨文化意识；文化教学 【指导老师】 【专业】英语 【正文】I. IntroductionA culture has a close connection with a particular language and plays an important role in the learning and teaching of it. As we know, every nation has its own culture and, generally, the cultures of nations of the world are different from each other. Owing to the disparities in culture, to people who speak different languages, a word or phrase used to express the same idea can cause misunderstanding?;a word used to express good intention may surprise or irritate people?;a common sentence can sometimes amuse one person greatly and cause laughter, but it can be dull in the eyes of another person with different cultural background.In our foreign language teaching, we have been trying to train our students in accordance with the teaching program issued by the State Education Commission and as a result of the training?, they should be good at listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translating in the area of the target language. They have proved so. But if we pay attention, we may notice that in schools and some cross-cultural communicative occasions, some students and young interpreters speak English in an inappropriate way, although their pronunciation is good and they use grammar correctly. This is because that for a considerably long period of time?, the tranditional methodology has been in the leading position. EFL teacher have laid great emphasis on language itself, i.e., phonetics, vocabulary and grammar. And to some extent, they have neglected the cultivation of the students’ cross-cultural communicative competence and cultural awareness. Thus, after years of English study, the students still find themselves at a loss when they communicate directly with the native English speakers.In short, language teaching and culture teaching are closely linked.? A language teacher can not teach linguistic knowledge separately from the cultural knowledge. The cultural know