英语学习中的中西文化交流意识的培养

题目（英文）The cultivation of Chinese and Western cultural                 communication consciousness in English study

题目（中文）    英语学习中的中西文化交流意识的培养                                         

Abstract

This part mainly discusses the relationship among language, culture and cross-cultural communication, expounds the significance of the cultivation of English learners’ cross-cultural awareness and feasible strategies to help learners to develop their cross-cultural communication. 

  Culture, as the total pattern of human behavior, oversteps geographical limits and historical conditions in many ways, it is characterized by its strong penetrativeness.

  Language is an important carrier of culture, which is assumed have the task of cultural heritage continuation (Wang & Wu, 1994: 89). What’s more, foreign language teaching is the key to cross-cultural communication.

  people of different cultural backgrounds apparently interact each other (Wang, 1999: 139). Especially after China’s accession to the WTO , Cross-cultural communication is particularly more important than before.

  Cross-cultural awareness is the result of cross-cultural communication. The concept of cross-cultural refers to communication or interaction between people from different cultural background. It is essential to train learners’ intercultural communicative ability. To be specific, it has the following three aims: First, it can help to cultivate learners to understand and accept different cultures positively. By comparing with a foreign culture, learners can have better and deeper understanding in their own culture and grasp the similar or different characteristics of each culture. Secondly, intercultural communication ability can help learners adapt to a new culture easily. It is very common the have collision or conflict when exposing to a foreign culture, however, intercultural awareness can erase or lessen the feeling of discomfort or unnecessary conflict effectively. Thirdly, it is of great significance to train learners’ some communicating basic skills, especially to improve communication ability in a foreign language, due to to reform and opening up and the rising frequency of communication between Chinese and foreigners from totally different cultural background.

Keywords　English study;cultural consciousness;cross-cultural communication; Culture;cross-cultural awareness