ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHINGIN CROSS-CULTURAL CONTEXTS

• 作者: JinWenhua
• 来源期刊: 中国英语教学：英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: 英语教学 跨文化交流 文化差异 文化教学 英语理解力
• 年，卷（期）: 2004,（1）
• 页码范围: 55-58
• 页数: 4页
• 分类号: H319.3

摘要

Improving learners' intercultural communicativecompetence has been acknowledged to be the major goal ofcurrent English Language Teaching (ELT) in China. Yet, noconsensus has been reached even today on the definition ofIntercultural Communicative Competence (ICC). The author ofthis paper proposes her understanding of ICC and points out tha tthe key element of fostering our learners' ICC lies in improvingtheir social-cultural competence, towards which three feasiblesteps are further illustrated : getting an inside view of the targetculture; getting an outside view of the native culture; seeking athird perspective. Improving learners' intercultural communicativecompetence has been acknowledged to be the major goal ofcurrent English Language Teaching in China. Whatintercultural communicative competence is and how this may beachieved by our English learners have become issues of majorconcern. Addressing these issues, this paper proposes possiblesolutions to the problem.