Cultivation of Autonomous Learning Ability and Intercultural Communication Competence in Foreign Language Teaching

Learner Autonomy has been a hot topic in foreign language learning and teaching since 1960s,especially in relation to life-long skills.As the globalization develops,intercultural communication becomes more and more significant for college students.This essay attempts to explore main approaches to cultivate and improve students' autonomous learning ability and intercultural communication competence in foreign language teaching.

THE COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH TO THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

1. Introduction In educational theory, as with most things, there exist fashions and trends. Within the field of foreign language teaching the communicative approach is with good reason very fasharable in the west. The name certainly makes it difficult to argue with, who would want to use the ’non-communicative’ approach to teaching a foreign language? The need to communicate in a language is what makes language teaching different from teaching many other subjects. If you study geography, you learn about places, but if you only learn about a language it is not enough.

An Analysis of Intercultural Foreign Language Teaching Approach

Intercultural Foreign Language Teaching Approach is an effective way of foreign language teaching and suggested to be adopted to promote foreign language teaching in China.This article mainly focuses on introducing Intercultural Foreign Language Teaching Approach including its signif icance and contents.

Humanistic Approach and Affective Factors in Foreign Language Teaching

In foreign language teaching, there appear a lot of approaches. This essay lays special stress on humanistic approach and analyses the influence of some important affective factors on language learning, for the purpose of inviting teachers＇ attention to students＇ emotions in fulfilling their teaching task.

Humanistic Approach and Affective Factors in Foreign Language Teaching

For a long time,Chinese EFL teaching has been following the teacher-centered model,which emphasizes the cognitive aspect but ignores the affective factors.So "emotional illiteracy" is a common phemenon and harmful to language learning and students'all-round development.This essay lays special stress on humanistic approach and analyzes the influence of some important affective factors on language learning,for the purpose of inviting teachers'attention to students'emotions in fulfilling their teaching task.

Inspiration of cognitive approach on foreign language teaching

In recent years, the college English teaching reform has been increasingly deepened. The study of the relationship between cognitive approach and foreign language teaching is undoubtedly instructive not only to guarantee the quality of foreign language teaching but also to improve learners＇ foreign language proficiency. In this essay, the author expounds the development of cognitive approach and some relative teaching principles, on which basis the author puts forward some specific practices in foreign language teaching.

A Brief Analysis About the Function of the Communicative Approach -- It Can Lighten Classroom Anxiety in Foreign Language Teaching

Classroom Anxiety is very common and to some extent it influences students＇ achievements in foreign language learning. So, how to solve this problem in order to help students have a good performance in foreign language learning is a very urgent issue. According to the writer＇s study, communicative approach is an effective method to deal with it.

Implementation of the Competence-Based Approach in Teaching Foreign Languages in a Non-linguistic College

Due to the increasing role and importance of foreign languages in the context of globalization, it is becoming more important to teach foreign languages for professional communication in different types of educational institutions including nonlinguistic colleges. In this regard, both the approaches to teaching foreign languages should be reconsidered, and also training programs that meet the requirements of future specialists should be created. One of the possible ways out is to use the competence-based approach, i.e., forming a set of special competences in future professionals to solve practical problems. For training a competitive IT-specialist, in teaching foreign languages it is necessary to form a number of language subcompetences in students that are on the basis of their professional competence. The proposed model can be used for teaching any foreign language, where the language component is invariable, and is filled with professional content.

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.

Research on the Cultivation of Intercultural Communication Ability in College Foreign Language Teaching under the"Belt and Road"

With the continuous deepening of the “Belt and Road” initiative, frequent international economic and cultural exchanges have alsoplaced new demands on the language and cross-cultural communication capabilities of Chinese university students. In this way, themeaning of intercultural communication is summarized, and the dilemma of cross-cultural teaching in foreign languages isdiscussed from the aspects of students' learning motivation. Finally, combined with the current situation of cross-cultural teaching,from the enthusiasm of mobilizing students' language communication, this paper puts forward the strategy of cultivating foreignlanguage classroom intercultural communication ability under the new situation, which provides reference and theoretical basis forimproving university foreign language cross-cultural teaching.

Intercultural Communication and Foreign Language Teaching

Intercultural communication is an essential part of foreign language teaching, which can neither be ignored in the class room nor in the society. The importance of intercultural communication was introduced first and the reasons why it should be taught were explained in details. Several teaching contents were listed and ways of cultural teaching were suggested to conclude the paper.

Humanistic Approach Features and Its Using in Foreign Language Teaching

By explaining the meaning of"Humanism"and how it influenced the foreign language teaching, this essay discusses about the basic features of the Humanism Approach as well as what we should pay attention to when using this approach in practical foreign language teaching.

Taking Stock of Grammar-Translation Teaching Method in Developing Intercultural Pragmatic Competence

Grammar-translation teaching method(GTTM as a shorthand below) has long been a buzzword when it is adopted in the class of English as a foreign language.It has been universally acknowledged that such teaching method contradicts the development of communicative language competence advocated in recent decades.However,I positively argue that GTTM in English class,as a comparative and intercultural model,should be given a due reconsideration to improve L2 learners' pragmatic competence.

Culture Input in Foreign Language Teaching

Language and culture are highly interrelated,that is to say,language is not only the carrier of culture but it is also restricted by cul-ture.Therefore,foreign language teaching aiming at cultivate students'intercultural communication should take culture differences into con-sideration.In this paper,the relationship between language and culture will be discussed.Then I will illustrate the importance of intercultural communication.Finally,according to the present situation of foreign language teaching in China,several strategies for cultural input in and out of class will be suggested.

Systemic-Functional Linguistics and Foreign Language Teaching

Systemic-functional linguistics is one of the most influential linguistics schools in the recent 20 years.Though M.A.K.Halliday,the founder of Systemic-functional Linguistics,has not taken up any language teaching research by himself,he has been putting great emphasis on language teaching and language learning.With the increasing influence of Systemic-functional Linguistics,more and more applied linguists and foreign language teachers are trying to use his theories to solve the problems in language teaching and learning,and have achieved a lot.

Employing the Communicative Approach to Improve the Competence of Listening and Speaking

It is well know that a human linguistic communicative behavior,listening and speaking occupies a very important position in both our daily life and foreign language teaching.Now the classroom becomes more student-centered with the teacher allowing for students to output the language more often on their own.In order to improve the students' listening and speaking,the Communicative Approach has been exploited,which is based on communicative efficiency.It sees communicative competence of language.

The Production-Oriented Approach Updated:Introduction to the Special Issue

More than a decade has passed since Wen Qiufang(2007)first proposed that foreign language teaching could benefit from output-driven practices in the classroom.Her original ideas were reformulated and further elaborated in the Production-Oriented Approach(POA),which aims to deal with the input-output separation in foreign language teaching in Chinese universities and colleges to optimize students’learning(Wen,2015,2016b).Integrating the strengths of Chinese traditional pedagogy and Western instructional approaches,this approach engages learners with production,merging the learning and use of language to enhance the efficiency of language teaching(Illes,2018,p.242)in a Chinese context.This introduction to the special issues includes three major sections.It starts out with an overview of what the POA system includes and how it works with a focus on its teaching procedures.The second section is about dialectical research(DR),a new research paradigm specifically designed for instructed second language acquisition(Wen,2017b)with“dialectical materialism as its philosophical basis”(Wen,2019,p.385).Finally,seven papers collected in this issue are introduced.We hope that this special issue sets a research agenda towards a better understanding of the POA.

A PERSONAL UNDERSTANDING OF SOME MAIN TEACHING APPROACHES AND METHODS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

IntroductionAs theories of language and psychology have developed,new teaching approaches and methods haveemerged to accompany them.The appearance of these approaches and methods has not only met theneeds of contemporary language teaching,but also aroused the interest of the second and foreign languageteachers.Though there have been many controversies among applied linguists and teachers,uniquecharacteristics of each method can be identified.Some methods have been adopted universally.others areconfined to limited areas.Whatever the situation may be.a general review of these approaches andmethods is necessary,in order to get some insights into their nature,strengths and weaknesses.The resultwill hopefully be more effective language teaching.

Existing Problems and Solutions on Rural Primary School Language Education

At present,there are still many problems in language teaching in rural primary schools,which will affect the quality of teaching if we don't pay much attention to them.This article focuses on the existing flaws in current language teaching and provides some solutions.