Developing Students’ Intercultural Communicative Competence Through Threads of Personal Experiences: A Reflective Approach

融入个人叙事提高学生跨文化交际能力——一项反思教学研究

With the development of world globalization, English works as a lingua franca for intercultural communication among different cultures in the world. This shift implies that introducing solely English native speaking cultures to students is not sufficient for their needs. This paper depicts the reflective teaching process of my ten years of experience of teaching intercultural communication.The paper describes how the teacher systematically reflects on the practice of teaching,continuously revises the curriculum, and finally formulates an efficient model of integrating students’ personal experiences into developing students’ intercultural communicative competence and awareness. This reflective study attempts to provide some pedagogical implications for intercultural communication education.

随着世界全球化的发展,英语成为世界上不同文化间跨文化交流的通用语言,这意味着只介绍英语为母语的文化不能满足英语作为第二语言的学习者未来跨文化交际的需要。本文描述了作者十年来在跨文化交际教学中的反思性教学过程,介绍了教师如何系统地反思自己的教学实践,不断修正课程设计,并最终形成了将学生的个人叙事融入培养学生的跨文化交际能力和意识的有效模式,希望本反思教学研究为跨文化交际教育提供一些教学实践方面的启示。