大学生跨文化意识与跨文化交际能力调查报告

Intercultural Awareness and Intercultural Communication Competence:A Survey of a Chinese Campus

本文以Young Yum Kim的跨文化交际理论构架与高一虹的跨文化交际能力培养的"跨越"与"超越"理念为理据,对中国南方一普通高校的400名学生分为3个不同的受试组进行了跨文化意识与跨文化交际能力的测试调查。测试卷涵盖了跨文化意识、交际文化与知识文化等内容。测试结果显示:(1)中国高校学生深层的跨文化交际意识普遍薄弱;(2)跨文化交际课程可以有效地提高"跨越"层的交际水平;(3)跨文化交际中的主要失误在于文化"负迁移"现象的影响。文章对跨文化交际教育如何从"跨越"到"超越"提出了相应的对策。

This paper intends to test Chinese EFL learners'intercultural awareness and intercultural communication competence via the measurement of a test conducted amongst 186 English majors by the end of their third year and 214 non-English majors(CET Band 5-6)in a southern university of China.The theoretical framework of the paper originates from Young Yum Kim's structural model of factors influencing cross-cultural adaptation and Yihong Gao's'going across'and'going beyond' cultures as two levels of intercultural communication competence development.The test tests the learners'knowledge of communication and culture,as well as intercultural awareness.The result shows that(1)the learners are prevalently lacking profound intercultural communication awareness;(2)intercultural communication course can validly improve the students’'going across' culture;(3)most of the mistakes made by the learners are mainly due to the'negative transfer' in culture.Some corresponding strategies concerning intercultural communication education are put forward.