关键事件分析:培养跨文化交际能力的新途径

The Analysis of "Critical Incidents" as a Way to Develop Intercultural Communicative Competence

外语教学的最终目标是培养学生的跨文化交际能力。然而,目前的外语教学并没能很好地解决如何培养这一能力的问题。关键事件分析为外语教学提供了新思路、新途径。关键跨文化事件分析将语言、文化、个体因素有机结合起来,有助于增进学生对真实交际情境的体验和感知,提高文化感悟力和思辨力,促进语言文化知识向跨文化交际能力的转变。

Foreign language teaching field shares a common sense that the ultimate goal of foreign language teaching is to develop students’ intercultural communicative competence.Nevertheless,foreign language teaching has never achieved this goal yet.This paper finds ＂critical incidents＂ a new way to do this task.The analysis of critical intercultural incidents which combines language,culture and personal elements into one task,contributes to students’ experience and awareness in real communicative context and improves their cultural understanding and critical thinking,thus to develop students’ intercultural communicative competence.