Global Understanding Classroom: the Innovation of Cross-Cultural Communication English Teaching

摘要

The Global Understanding classroom, which originated in the United States, uses various tools such as online videoconferences, chat rooms and e-mail to group students from different countries for real-time and non-real-time communication. It has the characteristics of diversity of disciplines, integrity of courses, school autonomy, student cooperation, and communication situation. This course emphasizes students' intercultural communication ability, promotes the construction of students' English culture patterns, broadens students 'global vision, and can effectively promote English teaching. It is an innovation in cross-cultural communication English teaching. The global comprehension curriculum brings important enlightenment to the teaching of English in China, namely, it attaches importance to the humanism and communicative nature of English, the subjectivity of students and the dominance of teachers.