Cultivation of Cultural Empathy Competence from the Perspective of Intercultural Communication

Li Yujie

doi:10.11648/j.ijsedu.20190702.11

Abstract

The focus of current foreign language teaching is to cultivate students' cultural awareness. The ultimate goal of foreign language teaching is to cultivate students' intercultural communicative competence, and cultural empathy competence is the most important factor in the intercultural communicative competence system, which will directly affect the quality, effect and process of intercultural communication. In the process of intercultural communication, people begin to realize that the cultural empathy competence is the most important part of the intercultural communication system, which will directly affect the quality, effect and process of intercultural communication. In English teaching, the education and training of cultural empathy competence is an indispensable part in cultivating students' comprehensive English competence. Reaching the ideal state of empathy is not an overnight process, but a long process of psychological adaptation and behavioral identification, which determines the nature of difficulty and long-term of cultural empathy. Therefore, in English teaching, teachers should not only teach language knowledge, but also impart cultural knowledge, guide students to realize the differences and similarities between Chinese and western cultures, cultivate students' intercultural communication awareness through multiple ways, and skillfully guide students to carry out cultural empathy, so as to improve the effect of English teaching.

Highlights

With the development of the world's diversification and the steady implementation of the "The Belt and Road" initiative, the conflicts and integration between different cultures have become more and more obvious
The cultivation of intercultural communicative competence has been regarded as the ultimate goal of foreign language teaching in China
Reaching the ideal state of empathy is not an overnight process, but a long process of psychological adaptation and behavioral identification, which determines the nature of difficulty and long-term of cultural empathy

Summary

Introduction

With the development of the world's diversification and the steady implementation of the "The Belt and Road" initiative, the conflicts and integration between different cultures have become more and more obvious. In 1972, Hymes first put forward the concept of communicative competence. [1] Since intercultural communication has become a hot topic for scholars at home and abroad. Many domestic well-known scholars have carried out effective research work in this field. They have effectively solved the problem of how to teach and what to teach in the actual teaching process, and pay attention to the construction of the concept of cultural difference and the practical communicative competence of learners in the learning process. The attention paid by domestic and foreign academia to the cultural empathy competence indicates that the study of intercultural communication has developed from surface study to deep study

Concept of Cultural Empathy Competence

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