To What Extent Can Course Books Be Used to Help Increase Students’Intercultural Communicative Competence

Course books serve as important tools of foreign language teaching and the major media of cultural transmission.They are supposed to be compiled in accordance with the categorized requirements of the Senior High School English Curriculum Standard(2017)for cultural awareness so as to integrate language with culture,develop students cross-cultural awareness and communication and thus achieve the ultimate goal of foreign language teaching.This paper is written on the basis of the Senior High School Curriculum Standard and combines related theories on course book evaluation and culture teaching and tends to analyze the cultural orientation of English in Mind Level 4 in terms of target culture,common culture and global culture,in Reading,aiming at figuring out the compiling features.Meanwhile,some constructive suggestions can be offered on future course book revision as well as how teachers impart culture effectively in classroom teaching.In this paper,a series of cross-cultural teaching strategies and methods will be put forward to cultivate students蒺ability of cross-cultural communication effectively,meanwhile some advice for compilers of the course books will be given.