Acquaintance with learners' cultural frame of reference can help second language teachers adjust and extend patterns of communication and create the optimal classroom conditions for acquisition of target language....Acquaintance with learners' cultural frame of reference can help second language teachers adjust and extend patterns of communication and create the optimal classroom conditions for acquisition of target language. This paper concentrates on reviewing diverse motivational, cognitive, and communicative styles; exploring their respective common patterns that arc grounded in the Chinese cultural and social and educational context; and examining the implications these three important components have for oral English teachers to work out ways to promote communication.展开更多
文摘Acquaintance with learners' cultural frame of reference can help second language teachers adjust and extend patterns of communication and create the optimal classroom conditions for acquisition of target language. This paper concentrates on reviewing diverse motivational, cognitive, and communicative styles; exploring their respective common patterns that arc grounded in the Chinese cultural and social and educational context; and examining the implications these three important components have for oral English teachers to work out ways to promote communication.