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.

Critically Evaluate Foreign Language Teachers Training in Culture and Intercultural Communication

The aim of foreign language teaching in the contemporary is to develop foreign language talents who own intercultural competence.Thus,it is necessary to improve teachers’cultural quality and intercultural awareness.The paper explores some relevant training courses on culture and intercultural awareness,and discusses the deficiency of these courses.

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.

The Obstacles on Learning European Communication at Foreign Language Course in Malang Raya

Communication inevitably becomes an essential part of interaction among people in every part of the world.Foreign language course provides opportunities for those who need to improve their foreign language skills like English,French,and German.However,this course finds some obstacles to the learning process like different curriculum,teaching technique,the background of the target language,pattern,as well as its culture.This research aims to dig out the learner’s obstacles and solutions in learning European language on communication at a foreign language course in Malang Raya.As the number of participants who put their interest more in learning European language course is growing,this research applied descriptive quantitative method by taking the population from the learners of European foreign language courses with purposive sampling.Meanwhile,the instrument used was a questionnaire,and it was analyzed by using the percentage formula.The finding shows that the obstacles to learning European communication consist of linguistic and non-linguistic obstacles,whereas the solutions done are various.

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.

Promoting Local Culture Learning in the Context of Foreign Language Instruction

Foreign language learning is also culture learning,which is a dynamic process of bridging the connections between the local culture and the foreign culture.Based on a survey of 667 teachers of English and 278 students in colleges and universities in China,this paper first reviews the current research on the promotion of Chinese culture into the classroom teaching in the context of foreign language learning and then explores future prospects in this area of teaching.The discussion starts with the discussion on these major questions in the process of incorporating local culture in the form of telling stories about China,i.e.,“why need we tell the stories”,“who tells the stories”,“who leads in telling the stories”,“how can we tell the stories”,“what can we tell in the stories”,“where can we tell the stories”,and“how well can we tell the stories”.It continues proposing to pay attention to interdisciplinary research on discourse construction,communication modes and evaluation of communicative effectiveness,and also the design of foreign language curriculum and teaching materials.It concludes that incorporating local culture into the foreign language instruction is of great help to widen students’horizons,cultivate their language proficiency,enhance their culture awareness,strengthen their confidence,and realize shared appreciation of civilization with the people from other cultural backgrounds.

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.

An Active Language Learning Environment Created by Email Communication

The rapid development of information and communication technology in recent years is associated with a corresponding growth in interest in computer-mediated communication(CMC)-synchronous CMC and asynchronous CMC.Among asynchronous CMC,email communication has attracted more attention of researchers in the field of foreign language learning.This paper will review studies which investigate one aspect of the advantages of email communication-an active environment for foreign language learning.

Exploring English Language Learning Policies in Iran Based on Secondary School Course Books for Learning English in Light of Globalization and Culture

With the globalization of English, the macro and micro cultures of the users of English around the world interact intensively. Considering these conditions, the local and global cultural interface seems an important issue which needs to be clarified in the materials and books used for learning English. Thus, the focus of this study was to explore the language learning policy of the new Iranian English course book at high schools, Prospect 1, recently published and taught for a year in Iran, in light of globalization and culture. This qualitative study was conducted through carrying out semi-structured interviews. The participants of this study were 30 teachers of Ministry of Education, who had the experience of teaching Prospect I for a year and they were mostly chosen from Mashhad and the rest from other cities of Khorasan province, Iran. The interview contained four main questions which were posed to the teachers. The findings of the study indicate that the language learning policy of Iran need to pay more attention to the learners＇ intercultural communicative competence because it mainly attempts at teaching English language focusing on the home culture in the Iranian context. The article ends with some pedagogical implications and more recommendations for developing research studies.

Cultivation of Cross-cultural Competence of High-quality Foreign Language Talents

In today’s world,the competition of comprehensive national strength is becoming increasingly fierce,and the status and role of culture is becoming increasingly prominent.In the context of multicultural and civilized exchanges and mutual learning,it is becoming more and more important to strengthen cultural self-confidence and have good cross-cultural skills.This paper points out that the training model of cross-cultural competence should be constructed from the theoretical and practical levels,and the concept of cross-cultural competence should be redefined,that is,cross-cultural knowledge at the cognitive level,language integration at the functional level,creativity and initiative at the behavioral level,and sense of responsibility and speculative consciousness in cross-cultural communication.Expand students’international vision and knowledge structure,develop critical thinking,and effectively cultivate their awareness and ability of cross-cultural communication in real situations.

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.

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.

A content analysis related to the cross-cultural/intercultural elements used in EFL coursebooks

This study aimed to examine some coursebooks of English as a Foreign Language （EFL） to see whether they involve any cross-cultural topics belonging to different cultures from different countries in the world. Assuming that EFL coursebooks written after the communicative movements in foreign language teaching and learning in the 1970s and the 1980s would have a plenty of cross-cultural elements, it was expected to see these coursebooks would also have a lot of cross-cultural elements, especially regarding their publication dates. This study aimed to investigate to what extent teaching materials used in EFL setting involve intercultural elements. Accordingly, 5 coursebooks were evaluated, and topics and number of cross-cultural elements were presented. The coursebooks used in the study were published in 1998, 1999, 1999, 2001 and 2006 namely. However, as the results displayed, the frequency of cross-cultural elements were not mutually related to their publication dates. The distribution and frequency of cross-cultural elements were not balanced with the dates chronologically.

Brief Introduction of Intercultural Communicative and College English Course

With the acceleration of globalization, people have encountered more and more intercultural communication.In China, more and more scholars have turned their attention to the intercultural communication, and many foreign language teachers have done a lot of work in the field of research and practice of cultural teaching. In this paper, the author will try to introduce the relationship between intercultural communication and college English course briefly.

外语教学研究性学习新探索:基于个人跨文化经历的案例写作

研究性学习是深度培养跨文化交际能力的最佳途径,是跨文化教学改革的重点方向。本文基于研究性学习理念提出以教师案例教学来驱动学生开展案例写作,以促进学生跨文化交际能力与学术综合素养发展。跨文化案例写作以经典案例分析为研究范例、个人跨文化经历为研究素材、独立思考与同伴互评来开展系统研究、案例撰写与评分择优来呈现研究成果。量性与质性评价数据表明案例写作能有效提升学生跨文化交际能力与综合学术素养。在学生反馈基础上,进一步明确研究性活动开展应细分阶段、明确指导、网络协作与技能培养互补共赢的四大教学原则。跨文化案例写作是跨文化外语教学研究的有益探索,为研究性学习活动的开展提供可行路径。

跨文化交际能力及其培养:一种建构主义的观点

本文从建构主义观点出发,分析了跨文化交际能力的构成--不但有知识的成分,还有思维能力和行为能力的成分;提出了培养上述能力的显性和隐性两种教学路径并考察了若干实践层面的问题.

从体验到思辨性产出:跨文化交际线上线下体验性学习模式

跨文化交际能力是全球公民的核心素养,其能力培养需兼顾知识传授与实践体验,然而当前跨文化外语教学却存在重知识而轻体验、依赖间接经验而缺乏真实体验、浮于语言技能而忽视思辨性产出等问题。针对这一教学困境,以体验性学习理念为基础提出跨文化交际线上线下体验性学习模式,促进学生开展真实的线上线下跨交际体验并完成思辨性产出。学生评价表明该模式能良好地促进学生跨文化交际能力发展,并对未来跨文化行为产生积极影响。

重述和澄清要求与儿童外语发展

比较重述和澄清要求两种反馈方式对中国外语课堂环境下儿童学习英语过去时态标识的不同作用。纠正性反馈能有效促进儿童外语学习。其中在对反馈的接纳方面,如果老师同时提供重述和澄清要求,儿童的接纳就更多一些,其次是澄清要求,再次是重述;而在反馈的作用方面,重述和澄清要求最能促进儿童外语的发展,其次是重述,再次是澄清要求。

跨文化意识对外语学习的作用

讨论了跨文化交际与跨文化意识在外语学习中的作用,主要包括:文化意识促进对词汇的理解和记忆;有助于对句子结构的掌握及消除文化交流中的误解等。

关于外语学习最佳年龄的研究

关于外语学习的最佳年龄 ,国外不同学者提出了不同的理论 ,包括临界期假说 ,非临界期假说和敏感期假说。我国学者也开展了一系列的研究 ,认为外语学习的起始年龄并不是决定外语学习能否成功的关键因素。事实上 ,不同年龄段的外语学习者有各自的优势 ,外语教学工作者应根据不同年龄的学生选用恰当的教材和教学方法 ,只有这样 ,才可以使外语学习者在相对较短的时间内掌握一门外语。