Study on Intercultural Teaching for EFL Teachers in China

Abstract

In today’s practice of foreign language teaching, culture teaching in China still faces such problems as teachers’ being less cross-culturally prepared, the absence of culture teaching syllabus and the shortage of interculture-oriented course books. To address these problems it is suggested that English Foreign Language (EFL) teachers should strengthen intercultural competence through training, further education abroad, and self-study; the syllabus, course books, and teaching methods should undergo some changes for the purpose of training interculturally competent students.