College English education cross-cultural awareness Culture.docVIP

College English education cross-cultural awareness Culture [Abstract] This paper first analyzes the college English teaching in the need for cross-cultural education, and then summed up in college English teaching in cross-cultural awareness-building gaps and major issues, finally proposed the strengthening of cross-cultural awareness-building of the points may operational recommendations. [Keywords:] College English Cross-Cultural Awareness First, college English teaching the necessity of cross-cultural education 1. Will help improve student interest in learning. Students understand the texts in the words, sentences and full-text is often Zhiqiu surface meaning, rather than to understand its deeper meaning, reason, in addition to English language students in their own limited knowledge, the Western countries is the lack of social history, cultural background knowledge, while the University of English teaching in the material, mostly from Western countries. As in Western countries in education, social life and customs so there are greater differences, for by the Chinese cultural and educational growth of students who understand the Western countries, customs and cultural background knowledge not only to help students broaden their knowledge and to stimulate interest in learning, but also help students fully understand the terms of the cultural connotation and extension of help to the understanding of the sentence play a role and improve the forecasting full understanding. 2. Help develop students communicative competence. Students in cross-cultural communicative competence, including not only language skills, cultural competence should be emphasized. Language itself is a cultural context, language and culture, closely intertwined. The relationship between language and culture from the point of view, language is a product of culture as a whole or the outcome, but also to form and communicate with other components of culture medium. Therefore, in foreign lang