Integration of Cross-cultural Awareness Acquisition into Communicative Language Teaching

In order to improve their abilities in cross-cultural communication, language learners should develop not only their language competence, but also communicative competence. Therefore, the integration of cross-cultural awareness acquisition into communicative language teaching is quite necessary. And some practical measures of cultivating cultural creativity are introduced to help language learners to develop communicative competence.

A Communicative Approach to College English Grammar Teaching and Learning

In response to the misconception that Communicative Language Teaching means no teaching of grammar,it is argued that grammar is as important as traffic rules for safe and smooth traffic on the road.To achieve appropriate and effective communication,a communicative approach to college grammar teaching and learning is proposed.Both teachers and learners should change their attitudes toward and conceptions about grammar teaching and learning;additionally,teaching grammar in the company of reading and writing helps learners learn and acquire grammar in meaningful contexts.

Reflection on the Competence of Cross-Cultural Communication in English Teaching

It is indisputable fact that language cannot be separated from its culture.That's why the competence of cross-culture communication weighs highly in language learning from the perspective of sociolinguistics.More care has been given to the infiltration of cross-culture communication in teaching language.Under the guidance of theoretical comparisons,some suggestions will be given on how to combine this competence with daily language teaching in hope of improving language learners' integrative language ability.

Shallow Theory in Cultivation of Intercultural Communication Ability in Foreign Language Teaching

Modern foreign language teaching emphasizes on the training of the students'communicative ability. This paper makes attempts to discuss how to effectively develop the students'ability to cross-cultural communication from three aspects involved in foreign language teaching. They are three important factors named"cultural ability and culture","communication ability"and "cross-cultural communication ability".

Cultural Differences and English Language Teaching

With the development of the cross-cultural communication,more and more people have recognized the interaction between language and culture.Each culture has its own characteristic and is different from one another.Because of cultural differences,difficulties often arise in communication between different people.In China,English is taught as a foreign language.Both teachers and students should be aware of the differences between eastern and western culture in their teaching and study.

Necessity of Teaching Culture in Foreign Language Classroom

This paper expounds on the importance of teaching cultural things in foreign language classroom. Some commonly seen ＂cultural mistakes＂ are probed in detail to reveal that cultural awareness plays a crucial role in cross-cultural communication and teaching culture can greatly boost students＇ interest in learning a foreign language.

Intercultural Education in a Technology-Enhanced Foreign Language Learning Environment Implementing the TPACK Approach:Challenges and Possibilities

In the plurilingual and multicultural contemporary international setting,the educational systems opt for successfully meeting as well as adapting to the rapid social,economic,and technological changes.Based on the premise that intercultural communicative competence holds a significant potential for foreign language instruction,focus should throw into combining teachers’intercultural knowledge with pedagogy and technology.The prospect of introducing intercultural material within the context of teaching scenarios in the curricula of a technology-enhanced foreign language learning environment where the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge(TPACK)approach is implemented,can positively contribute to the teaching process.Under this perspective,cultural and digitally competent teachers can create a framework which will enable learners to fully develop their interactive and linguistic skills and to effectively communicate in a foreign language promoting its social and multicultural dimension whatever the intercultural context.

Multi-perspective Approaches of Vocabulary Teaching and Learning

It is universally acknowledged that vocabulary is an essential component in language system. Nevertheless, in English teaching practice, imparting grammatical knowledge is highly emphasized but the vocabulary teaching is given little attention.In second language acquisition, proper application of vocabulary in communication is one of the important and difficult points for students. The paper aims to discuss the current problems in vocabulary teaching and learning, advocate a multi-perspective approach in teaching vocabulary so as to enhance the accuracy and fluency of language output, promote students' pragmatic and cross-cultural communicative competence and lay a solid foundation for their life-long learning.

Cultivating Students' Cultural Awareness in Foreign Language Teaching

Many foreign language teachers are often wondering why their students cannot avoid some mistakes in their writing assignment and oral presentations though the grammatical rules and phrases are quite familiar to them. On the other hand students also complain about the boredom of learning English."What is the use of learning English besides taking exams?"they often ask. In this paper the author is going to discuss language learning and teaching from the cultural perspective. By discussing the importance of culture teaching, the author intends to help both the teachers and the students to get out of their bewilderment. Some useful suggestions will be shared at the end of the paper, aiming to offer some practical and concrete guidance to both the students and my co-workers.

The Application of Communicative Approach in College English Teaching

As college life is a turning point in one’s life, receiving higher education is of great importance. A nation wide heat of learning English arises in these decades, college students’ English competence becomes the most concern. This essay mainly discusses this concern from a communicative way by studying the theoretical base, the current situation of college English teaching and learning, thus to evoke the need for a new approach to language teaching, to show our students how the language system is used in normal communications and to enable them to cope with a varied range of situations in the target language.

Analysis of Pragmatic Failures and Strategies for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language

Cross-cultural communication has become an essential course for international students.As foreign students have different cultural backgrounds and languages,pragmatic failures are inevitable for them when communicating in Chinese,thus resulting in unpleasant communication.In order to effectively reduce pragmatic failures,it is necessary to analyze the problems that arise in the process of teaching Chinese as a foreign language and determine the causes.This research is separated into three aspects.Firstly,with the support of the theory of pragmatics and by analyzing the life and learning of foreign students,it can be appreciated that the pragmatic failures of foreign students in using Chinese for communication are very much detailed in the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language[1].Secondly,after arranging and analyzing these corpora,the reasons for the pragmatic failures of foreign students are determined.Finally,aiming at the causes of pragmatic failures,corresponding countermeasures and teaching suggestions are proposed.The conclusion drawn from this research is that pragmatic failures occur due to various factors,some of which are essential factors that cannot be changed.This requires effort from both Chinese language teachers and students in the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language to lessen the occurrence of pragmatic failures.

Strategy of English teaching in intercultural communication

Along with the accelerated pace of reform and opening, and the frequent external exchanges, and the increasingly widespread exchanges between countries, especially the improving information technology, and the use of the Internet, more and more people have been involved in cross-cultural communication. However, there are many differences between Chinese people and people from other cultures in the way of thinking, social and cultural life habits, and all of them can lead cross-cultural communication barriers. Therefore, a higher demand to English language teaching has been put forward, English language teaching not only imparts knowledge, the more important thing is to train students in the interpersonal skills, and develop their applications in English cross-cultural communication ability.

A Study of Pragmatic Failures in Cross-Cultural Communication

This paper focuses on pragmatic failures in cross-cultural communication and explores the difficult meanings in cross-cultural pragmatics. Through exploring the differences in address, greeting, politeness and other cross-cultural aspects, the author explains the cross-cultural basis for pragmatics. The author first explains certain concepts, including culture, pragmatics, pragmatic failures and cross-cultural communication, and then illustrates some pragmatic failures in cross-cultural communication and discusses the causes of these failures. Finally, she gives some suggestions on improving competence in cross-cultural communication. This thesis is intended to remind English learners of the importance of learning cultures of English-speaking countries and facilitate cross-cultural communication.

Two Models for the Cultivation of Postgraduates' Communicative Competence in the Classroom

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THE RESEARCH AND PRACTICE OF COOPERATIVE ENGLISH TEACHING IN NTU

合作教学作为一种有效的教学方式,20世纪70年代初兴起于美国,80年代—90年代在中国也有实践研究。一名外教和两名中国英语教师于2006年—2007年在宁夏师范学院就《英语国家社会文化》课程进行合作教学实践研究,旨在开阔学生视野,提高学生跨文化意识和小课题研究能力,以及提高教师合作和专业发展能力。实践合作教学如何很好地促进学生学习有效性和教师专业发展,探索合作教学对职前和在职师范教育培训的有效性,合作教学实践和效果检测表明"合作教学"虽有压力和挑战,但能很好地调动学生的学习积极性和主动性,能很好地提高学生的学习自主性,开阔了学生的文化视野,培养了学生跨文化意识和小课题研究能力,尤其是很好地促进了合作教师的协作能力、科研能力和文化洞察力等专业能力发展。结论认为合作教学方式是一种有效的培训方式,值得提倡。

A Comparative Analysis of English and Chinese Compliments

Compliment as a speech act is a tool for establishing friendship that creates ties of solidarity in different cultures.This paper introduces the background theories concerning studies of the speech act of complimenting.It makes comparison about making compliments in English and in Chinese from the perspectives of topics,semantic and syntactic structures followed by discussing differences and similarities in performing compliments in two cultures.Moreover,implications of the study to foreign language teaching and learning are provided and the significance of integrating culture teaching to enhance learner’s pragmatic competence and smooth their cross-cultural communication is emphasized.

Visual Design and Instructional Effectiveness

The paradigms of old media are replaced by new forms of creativity and delivery of content by those who strive to enhance innovative ways of communication and learning based on universally accepted guidelines. These ubiquitous rules of design are what scholars in the field of call as the principles of design. Particularly when instructional effectiveness of a new message is under close lens, instructional designers unanimously accept and implement these design principles in the process of planning and designing products for consumers and/or learners With today＇s digital revolution and technological break-throughs, instructional designers need to keep seeking new forms of design, communication, and learning with various forms of instructional media and innovative, technology-rich design techniques. Given this educational milieu in an ever-growing digital world of learning and instruction, this paper will focus on eliciting some of these most innovative and outstanding instructional design （ID） products and evaluate their effectiveness in learning and teaching environments based on an army of ID principles generally accepted by the scholars of the field.

HOW DO STUDENTS FROM DIFFERENT CULTURES APPROACH THE SAME SUBJECT?

本文通过对美国和中国学生教授相同的模拟实景课,探讨了来自不同文化背景的学生对相同问题的处理方法及态度。本研究的主要目的是为了考察文化对学生做事方法的影响。研究结果表明,因为来自不同文化背景的学生所持的文化价值不同,处理相同问题的方法和角度也不同。因此,外语老师需要使学生对自己文化和所学外语文化的区别加以注意,提高敏感度,以便在教学上取得更好的效果。