Cross-Cultural Communication and English Teaching in Middle Schools

摘要

随着国际交往与交通的发展，世界经济的全球化，人口迁移的广泛分布，导致工作伙伴与社会群体之间多文化并存的现象同见频繁，跨文化交际也因此成了21世纪人们生存与生活的必备能力。为了能与来自不同文化的人们顺利沟通，个体必须注重跨文化交际能力的培养：从跨文化交际意识，敏感度进而到能力的形成。简而言之，对他文化的尊重即是不同文化之间顺利沟通的基础。 我们的外语教学正是在教语言的同时从小培养学生跨文化交际能力的有效途径之一。而这个目的却因为中学普遍存在的应试教育的压力，教师自身素质的参差不齐及其他种种原因而几乎被忽略，导致了学生高分低能，英语教学高投入，低产出的现状。 本文分析了中学英语教学中文化教学的现状，专门论证了文化教学的必要性并提出了实施的种种可行的方法，进而阐述了中学的外语教学中生词短语，句子结构的灌输与记忆己远远不能适应当前学生的需要，还必须传授与语言知识密切相关的文化因素，以帮助学生养成良好的语言习惯，提高反映能力，能独立解决交际中出现的种种问题，从而提高他们在跨文化交际中各方面的能力。 另外，本文还提到了目前中学英语教学中有关文化教学运用较多的一些方法以供参考。最终目的是强调交际运用能力不仅仅只是语言能力，具备相应的文化背景知识除了提高和完善交际能力，还能对不同的文化产生认同和尊重，从而更具客观性和文化辨别力。

目录

文摘

英文文摘

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION

1.1Statement of the problem

1.2Statement of objectives

1.3Need for the study

1.4Limitation of the study

1.5 Means of obtaining data

1.6 Data analysis and presentation techniques

CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 The definition of culture

2.2 The relationship among language, culture and communication

2.3 Related views on cross-cultural communication

2.4 The elements of cross-cultural communication

2.4.1 Verbal language

2.4.2 Nonverbal language

2.5 Mechanism of cultural differences on communication

2.5.1 Positive transfer

2.5.2 Negative transfer

CHAPTER THREE DISCUSSION AND RESEARCH ON CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND ENGLISH TEACHING

3.1 Current situation of English teaching in middle schools

3.2 An analysis of the textbooks in use

3.3 Some teaching models influencing current teaching practice in middle schools

3.3.1 Grammar translation method

3.3.2 Audio-lingualism method

3.3.3 PPP

3.3.4 Communicative Language Teaching

3.3.5 Task-Based Leaning

3.4 Research on the students' cross-cultural awareness and cross-cultural communicative competence

3.4.1 The purpose of the study

3.4.2 Research design of the study

3.4.3 The results and data analyses of the study

3.5 The importance of teaching culture in the foreign language classroom

3.5.1 The reasons why culture should be taught

3.5.2 Some practical siderations on incorporating culture into the foreign anguage classroom

3.6 Suggestions on cultivating the students' intercultural communicative competence in the EFL classroom in middle schools

3.6.1 Improving the current testing system

3.6.2 The thorough utilization of the textbook

3.6.3 Change of the teacher's role

3.6.4The taught of culture throughout the whole teaching process

3.6.5Enrichment of the extra-class activities

CHAPTER FOUR CONCLUSION

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