Abstract
How to develop students’ intercultural communication competences is a controversial issue in foreign language education in China. In this article, the author attempts to offer an answer to this issue by putting forward a proposition for developing students’ intercultural communication competences in western etiquette teaching. First of all, the paper discusses the importance of developing students’ intercultural communication competences in western etiquette teaching. Then, the author dwells on the four dimensional approaches to developing students’ intercultural communication competences, such as teaching students’ basic knowledge of western etiquettes in class and providing more teaching practice opportunities as languages partners, tour guides, all kinds of activities and so on. In this way, we will reach our final goal of foreign language education so that our students will enhance their intercultural communication competences.
Highlights
Everyone knows people from deferent cultures have their own cultural perceptions, beliefs, values and social customs which greatly determine their communication ways, it is not surprising to find that people have many difficulties and obstacles in understanding one another and communicating with one another
By examining the many dimensions of intercultural communication competence proposed by intercultural communicational scholars, we find that most of the dimensions more or less overlap
In order to solve the above problem, we are going to suggest that Chinese foreign language educators should focus on developing students’ intercultural communication competence which refers to the capability achieved through acquiring knowledge about the western etiquette cultures, and is embedded in language and beyond language, through using this knowledge in the performance of intercultural communication and creating new thinking for a new action
Summary
Everyone knows people from deferent cultures have their own cultural perceptions, beliefs, values and social customs which greatly determine their communication ways, it is not surprising to find that people have many difficulties and obstacles in understanding one another and communicating with one another. How should teach western etiquette culture in foreign language education in China? 2. The importance of developing students’ intercultural communication competences in western etiquette teaching. Different countries have different customs and different etiquettes It will have an influence on personal capacity of intercultural communication. One cannot hope to have a good command of a target language without adequate knowledge of the culture related to that language In this sense, acquisition of information about western etiquette is as important as language learning itself. Especially, the western etiquette which is a important integrate part of the western cultures This situation makes foreign language and culture out of touch. The western etiquette cultural awareness plays a more and more important role in the cultivation of intercultural communication competence
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