Acknowledgements
摘要
Abstract
Contents
Chapter One:Introduction
1.1 Boom of intercultural communication
1.2 Meeting the need of development
1.3 Statement of the problem
1.4 Organization of the thesis
Chapter Two:Literatu re Review
2.1 Cultural imagination and cultural reality
2.2 Theoretical development of cultivating IC
2.2.1 Linguistic competence
2.2.2 Communicative competence
2.2.3 Intercultural competence
Chapter Three:Empowerment-oriented Mode in ELT under Chinese Context
3.1 Empowerment-oriented mode
3.1.1 Language competence
3.1.2 Socio-cultural competences
3.1.3 Positive intercultural awareness
3.1.4 Context of culture
3.2 Cultivating IC on interaction-based dialogic pedagogy
3.2.1 Interaction-based dialogic pedagogy
3.2.2 Five-level dialogic framework
3.3 A survey on students’ IC
3.3.1 Purpose of the survey
3.3.2 Subjects of the survey
3.3.3 Instrument of the survey
3.3.4 Results of the survey
Chapter Four:Proposals of Applying the Empowerment-oriented Mode to Cultivate IC in ELT
4.1 Developing culture-oriented courses and corresponding teaching materials
4.2 Changing teacher’s role
4.3 Teaching culture throughout the whole teaching process
4.4 Improving the current testing systems
4.5 Principles of cultivating IC
4.5.1 The orderly principle
4.5.2 The utilitarian principle
4.5.3 The objective principle
Chapter Five:Conclusion
Bibliography
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