Abstract:

With the progress of globalization, the international contact between different cultures has become increasingly frequent and intensified. In recent years, more and more college students in China and America choose to go to each other’s country for further education, however, although they have got more experience in intercultural communication, they can not avoid misunderstanding, friction, and even conflict, most of which, in fact, results from their lack of intercultural etiquette, particularly the classroom etiquette. This study is aimed at discovering the differences in classroom etiquette in China and American with quantitative study on the questionnaire delivered. From the perceptive of cross-cultural communication, the paper discusses the reasons for these differences in classroom etiquette, and expects to provide more references for the abroad students to achieve better teacher-student relationship and happy learning experience.

Keywords: classroom etiquette; differences; college student; cross-cultural communication

摘  要：

随着全球化的进程，不同国家文化之间的交流也日益加剧和频繁。近些年来，中美两国越来越多的大学生选择到对方国家留学深造，尽管他们已经在跨文化交流方面有很多的经验，但由于缺乏跨文化礼仪知识，不可避免地发生摩擦，产生冲突从而导致误解，尤其是在课堂礼仪的领域上。本研究通过问卷调查定量分析的方式，来探究中美课堂礼仪的差异, 从跨文化交际的角度来讨论中美课堂礼仪存在差别的原因。与此同时，在为留学生建立更好地师生关系以及能够更愉快的学习提供帮助和参考。

关键词：课堂礼仪；差异；大学生；跨文化交际

1.    Introduction
Class teaching and learning dominates the transmission and acquisition of knowledge both in the east and the west, no matter what kind of teaching methods and techniques people adopts. However, the study on classroom teaching efficiency shall not save its effort in researching on the classroom etiquette research, which is literally a significant influential factor to language teaching, especially in cross-cultural communication.
Etiquette is one of the basic forms to inherit human culture. It encourages people to show the others their respect during the communicating process and at the same time restrain themselves with humanistic qualities. Etiquette culture in colleges shows a country's level of civilization. Classroom etiquette is formed in class teaching and daily communication between teacher and student for a long time. It is the class spirit, philosophy of education and teaching and learning behavior that are exemplified by teachers and students. Research on classroom etiquette is a kind of trend. It is helpful to increase the teaching quality and build up good relations between teachers and students.