Intercultural communication is undisputably important in today’s world.Schools on every level in China attach great importance to educating young people with intercultural communication competence.Chinese anthropolog...Intercultural communication is undisputably important in today’s world.Schools on every level in China attach great importance to educating young people with intercultural communication competence.Chinese anthropologist Fei Xiaotong developed the concept of cultural self-awareness to meet this urgent need.The paper explores the rich meanings of cultural self-awareness concept and how the idea is relevant to teaching intercultural communication.展开更多
Literature in the language teaching can be used to arouse students＇ intercultural awareness. They are asked through a range of techniques to respond to the unfamiliar experience from different perspectives and to ide...Literature in the language teaching can be used to arouse students＇ intercultural awareness. They are asked through a range of techniques to respond to the unfamiliar experience from different perspectives and to identify and understand aspects of a foreign culture in the literature. The assessment of their understanding is carried out against specific criteria. The paper shows how a literary text can be used to develop an understanding ofothemess and how students＇ intercultural competence can be developed through the literature texts.展开更多
基金This paper is a program of the project:Construction of Common Core Courses for Graduate Students of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology(Project Fund No.GG202301).
文摘Intercultural communication is undisputably important in today’s world.Schools on every level in China attach great importance to educating young people with intercultural communication competence.Chinese anthropologist Fei Xiaotong developed the concept of cultural self-awareness to meet this urgent need.The paper explores the rich meanings of cultural self-awareness concept and how the idea is relevant to teaching intercultural communication.
文摘Literature in the language teaching can be used to arouse students＇ intercultural awareness. They are asked through a range of techniques to respond to the unfamiliar experience from different perspectives and to identify and understand aspects of a foreign culture in the literature. The assessment of their understanding is carried out against specific criteria. The paper shows how a literary text can be used to develop an understanding ofothemess and how students＇ intercultural competence can be developed through the literature texts.
