An Exploration of College English Teaching Mode from the Perspective of Intercultural Communication

摘要

With the continuous enhancement of globalization, people from different cultural backgrounds need not only language communication, but also the practice of intercultural communication ability based on understanding each other' s culture to achieve effective communication. College students, as the mainstream group in this era, not only want to know about each other's national culture through language communication, but more importantly, cultivate each other's intercultural communication ability in the process of English learning. Colleges and universities, as the main position of cultivating college students, should construct a scientific college English teaching model from the perspective of intercultural communication in order to carry out international cultural communication more effectively. In China, intercultural communication is the product of the reform and opening-up policy. After the reform and opening up in 1978, China opened its door to the world with the emergence of intercultural communication in China. In recent decades, as a new interdisciplinary subject, intercultural communication has been developing rapidly in the context of globalization. If we want to be in an advantageous position in the globe communication, we should learn to understand the culture of other countries, reduce the resistance in communication and avoid misunderstandings caused by cultural differences when interacting with others. In the meantime, we will cultivate high-quality, highly specialized type of person to engage in exchange, so that foreign friends can understand the Chinese culture and development. With the exchange of talents, China has already joined in the new field of intercultural communication. Therefore, we have to reflect on college English teaching mode in China and how to innovate it, in order to make talents become more outstanding in the field of intercultural communication, which have become the key issue concerned by people from all walks of life. Based on these points, this paper will explore them and put forward some personal opinion.