英语作为国际通用语背景下医学生跨文化能力实证研究

Empirical Study on the Intercultural Competence of Local Medical College Students in the Context of ELF

在英语作为国际通用语(ELF)的背景下,跨文化交际的本质、目标和内容都发生了剧烈的变化,跨文化能力也有了新内涵。在跨文化交际能力成为大学生必备技能的要求下,本研究使用模糊运算,独立样本T检验和ANOVA方差分析,结果显示医学生跨文化能力整体较一般,但各维度和内部子能力发展并不均衡,尤其是知识和技能内在表现均为两极化发展的情况,本国文化知识较为理想,而外国文化知识比较薄弱;理解技能较为理想,而操作技能并不理想。在开展大学英语教学过程中,教师需要提供全面和系统的文化知识,鼓励学生展开跨文化交际实践。

In the context of English as a lingua franca(ELF), the essence, goal and content of intercultural communication has changed dramatically, so is the essence of intercultural competence. Intercultural competence(ICC) has become one of the dispensable competence of students. A fuzzy operation, independent T-test and ANOVA result reflects that medical college students intercultural competence reveals an average level and fails to meet the demand of contemporary intercultural communication competence. Meanwhile,the performance of medical students’ intercultural competences is not ideal. The competence ranking from the strong to the weak is'Attitude > Chinese Cultural Knowledge> Intercultural Communication Skills> Awareness> Intercultural Cognitive Skills > Foreign Cultural Knowledge'. Therefore, college English teachers should train students’ sub intercultural competence so as to meet the requirement of intercultural communication in the context of ELF.