初中英语教学中跨文化意识和能力的培养_英语论文

Cultivation of Intercultural Awareness and Competence in Junior High School English Teaching

摘要

社会生活的信息化和经济的全球化使英语的重要性日益突出。语言与文化的关系又决定了初中英语的教学是语言文化的传播和跨文化交际意识和能力的培养。本论文旨在从语言与文化的相互关系中，探讨文化教学和英语教学的关系，强调跨文化教学在初中英语课堂的必要性。从初中生特点出发, 提出关于提高跨文化意识和能力的相关实际措施，提高学生的跨文化交际能力。

关键词：跨文化意识；跨文化能力；英语教学；培养

Abstract

With the informatization of social life and the globalization of economy, the importance of English is more and more highlighted. And the impartible relationship between language and culture determines that the English teaching in junior high school is not only about the teaching of language points and literal knowledge, but also the spread of culture and the cultivation of cross-cultural communication awareness and competence. This thesis focuses on the necessity of cultural teaching and aims to find out the relationship between cultural teaching and English teaching according to the relationship between language and culture. Based on the characteristics of junior high school students, this thesis puts forward some relevant practical methods to help student to establish the awareness of internationalization and their competence of cross culture to develop their ability of intercultural communication.

Keywords: intercultural awareness; intercultural competence; English teaching; cultivation

Contents

1. Introduction 1

2. Literature Review 1

3. Significance of Cultivating Awareness and Competence of Intercultural Communication 2

3.1 Definition of intercultural awareness and compentence 3

3.2 Necessity of the cultivation of intercultural awareness 3

3.3 Request of the development of intercultural competence 4

4. Methods of Cultivating Intercultural Awareness 5

4.1 Searching for the relevant cultural background and information 5

4.2 Enlightening students the connotation of English words 7

5. Approaches of Developing Intercultural Competence 8

5.1 Exploring existing material enlightening the cultural knowledge 8

5.2 Designing the interactive point of cultural education 9

5.3 Inspiring students to maintain adequate cultural interest in learning 9

6. Conclusion 10

Works Cited 12