The Impact of Street Interviews on Chinese EFL Undergraduates’Intercultural Communicative Competence

The study adopts Byram’s Intercultural Communicative Competence(ICC)model as the theoretical framework,and structured interviews were conducted to explore the impact of street interviews on the participants’ICC.Analysis results revealed street interviews help students acquire knowledge in intercultural attitudes,intercultural knowledge,skills of discovery and interaction,and critical cultural awareness,aligning with the four components of Byram’s ICC model.Meanwhile,they have positive perceptions of street interviews.Therefore,street interviews have a positive effect on the development of participants’ICC.

Specialised Language Content and Professional Communicative Competence in the Teaching of DaF

The teaching of German as a Foreign Language(DaF)aims to prepare students who study German and take the DaF exam for their professional studies in German universities.Therefore,it is important to integrate the elements of specialised language knowledge and develop the students’professional communicative competence in the Test DaF curriculum.This paper identifies the specialized language knowledge and professional communicative competence that should be incorporated in German language teaching,based on the objectives of the DaF examination.

Autonomous Learning and Improving Communicative Competence

Nowadays, English as a world language becomes more and more important. Consequently, English learning becomes more and more popular. As we know, an important object for English learners is to improve their communicative competence. So autonomous learning is a good way to improve communicative competence. In this paper, two terms, autonomous learning and communicative competence, and their relationship will be introduced from the perspective of English learning. Autonomous learning is self-managed learning, which is contrary to passive learning and mechanical learning, according to intrinsic property of language learning. Communicative competence is a concept introduced by Dell Hymes and is discussed and refined by many other linguists. According to Hymes, communicative competence is the ability not only to apply the grammatical rules of language in order to form grammatically correct sentences but also to know when and where to use these sentences and to whom. Communicative competence includes 4 aspects: Possibility, feasibility, appropriateness and performance. Improving communicative competence is the result of autonomous learning, autonomous learning is the motivation of improving communicative competence. English, of course, is a bridge connecting China to the world, and fostering students'communicative competence through autonomous learning is the vital element of improving English learning in China.

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.

Online International Peer Interaction:An Exploration of Impacts on Comprehensive Competencies,Global Perspectives,and Cross-Cultural Communication Skills

With the increasing trend of globalization and the rapid advancement of information technology,online learning platforms such as Zoom are becoming increasingly influential in the field of education.The focus of this study was the online international peer interaction based on the Zoom platform,detailing how such interaction programs are conducted and exploring in depth the specific impacts of this interaction mode on students’comprehensive competencies,global perspectives,and cross-cultural communication skills.This research not only provides new practical references for online learning and international education but also offers new research perspectives and directions for educators and researchers.

Cross-cultural Communicative Competence Training in Maritime Spoken English Teaching

As a means of communication,English has been internationalized.Communication in English always happens among the seafarers from different cultures.If crews couldn’t deal with the cultural differences well,successful communication and shipboard safety,which are just what STCW (Standards on Training,Certificate and Watch -keeping) calls upon,are difficult to be arrived at. Therefore cross -cultural communicative competence training,or how to teach maritime spoken English is the problem or the challenge that we,English teachers,are facing.To show how the teaching can be made more efficient and practical so as to narrow the gap between the training of the seaman in China and the requirements of STCW,through the teaching process,including the syllabus design and the materials selecting,we must consider the notion of language function as the key point.

Reviewing the Model of Communicative Competence in English Teaching

English communicative competence is growingly important,however,many college graduates can't communicate smoothly in English.Therefore,the English teacher is supposed to know clearly what abilities English communicative competence should contain,namely:what ability a person needs to be able to use English to communicate effectively.To that end,a large number of relevant literatures is carefully read;the evolution of English communicative competence model is reviewed;and then an English communicative competence model,inclusive,open-ended and dynamic,is put forward to guide English teaching and learning.

Communicative Competence & Communicative Language Teaching

Traditionally, English teaching in China is dominated by a teacher-centered, book-centered, grammar-translation method, audio-lingual method and an emphasis on rote learning, resulting in limited vocabulary and poor communicative competence. However, the communicative approach has provided the expected results since it was introduced into China in the 1990s, improving their linguistic competence as well as their communicative competence.

Striking A Balance in the Process of Developing EFL Learners' Communicative Competence

Communicative language teaching has been popular for more than 3 decades but there is still no shortage of argument in cases of how to develop communicative competence as a whole. Strategic competence,one of the four components of communicative competence,has been given much priority. The paper reexamines the four components of communicative competence and points out that we need to strike a balance in the process of developing learner's communicative competencein foreign language teaching.

Application of Communicative Competence in the ELT

Communicative competence is of crucial significance to the ELT.However,most research focuses on the introduction of communicative competence.This paper through discussing the difference between usage and use and the application of communicative competence,explores the ways to help cultivate communicative competence in our language teaching and learning.

On the Cultivation of Chinese Middle School Students’English Communicative Competence

In order to cultivate middle school students’English communicative competence,CLT has become an influential ap⁃proach.Some ways need to be adopted such as reform of teaching materials,transformation of English teachers’role and change of students’role and testing system.

A Study on Cross-Cultural Communication and the Cultivation of Cross-Cultural Competence in German Language Teaching in Universities

In the concept of German,cross-cultural competence is regarded as an important skill,which can help learners to better understand the differences between two cultures and establish mutual cognition.This competence can effectively reduce unnecessary misunderstandings and improve communication efficiency.In college German classes,teachers should realize that cross-cultural communication skills are crucial to the development of students’communicative competence.Therefore,they should strive to improve their teaching methods and make the courses more interesting to help students to communicate better.

A Brief Literature Review of Communicative Competence Models

Since the theory of communicative competence was put forward by Canale and Swain,there have been teaching professionals developing it to different models,three of which are reviewed in this essay.

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

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A Comparative Interpretation of Communicative Competence

This paper attempts to give an interpretation of communicative competence by a comparative approach,internally and externally.It first examines the internal components of communication competence as formulated by Hymes and Canale & Swain,and then explores the possible relationship between linguistic competence and communication competence by comparing and constrasting the two.Our conclusion is that linguistic competence is the foundation for communicative competence and the latter is a further development of the former.

Four Principles to Achieve Communicative Competence in Language Teaching

The paper aims to discuss the theory of communicative competence(CC for short) and its implications for language teaching.

On Classroom Activities and the Training of Oral Communicative Competence of Students

This paper is on training the students' oral communicative competence. The author promotes the shortcomings of "listen and answer" activity, analyses and compares several classroom activities. This paper illustrates some problems in conducting these activates and solutions to them. Author proves that the ways can help students improve their oral communicative competence.

Cultivation of Intercultural Communicative Competence of Senior High School Students

With the trend of globalization in education and the strengthened position of English as a foreign language in China,the need to understand the cultural differences between Chinese and Western culture is becoming increasingly urgent,especially for the students in senior high schools in China.This paper is aimed to arouse the awareness of the urgency to improve the intercultural communication competence of the students in senior high school in China.It proposes four feasible and conducive suggestions for senior high schools in China to set up curriculum about Western culture to meet the needs of their students.

Analysis of Formation in Communicative Competences for the Medical Act in Universidad de Antioquia Medicine School Undergraduate Program

This research study was conducted at the undergraduate program of the Medicine Faculty of Universidad de Antioquia. Its main purpose was to analyze the training in communication skills for the medical act. To this purpose, a triangulation between a representative survey of the students, some interviews and focal groups between students and professors, and an analysis of a curricular document on the contents of communication as a generic skill were done. This study allowed us to conclude that the definition of generic competence in communication cannot be established without the participation of the medicine curriculum actors, and that it is paramount to integrate this learning to this university program. The result of the present study is a proposal to include the communicative competence for the medical act in the curriculum of the Medicine Faculty of Universidad de Antioquia.

Fostering Intercultural Communicative Competence in Writing:A Preliminary Study

The deepening of internationalization has promoted intercultural communication.Countries around the world have established education policies on intercultural communication,highlighting the importance of intercultural communicative competence.The paper offers a preliminary study of how to foster learners’intercultural communicative competence in writing.It first elaborates intercultural communicative competence and the factors that cause intercultural communication failures,and then proposes a variety of writing strategies to develop learners’intercultural communicative competence.Suggestions on how to improve English teachers’intercultural communicative competence are also provided.