Teachers’ Role Positioning and Coping Strategies in the Context of Intercultural Teaching

Abstract

With the increasingly close global relationship, intercultural teaching has become an inevitable trend in current education development. The cultivation of students’ intercultural competence is bound to become one of the important goals of foreign language teaching. Intercultural teaching will present new characteristics because of the deepening of more intercultural factors, and it will also affect the interrelationship between teaching elements. As the main body of practice in the teaching process, the role of teachers will be different from traditional teaching. Facing the background of the era of intercultural teaching, teachers should adapt to the needs of the era and clarify their role positioning. This article first reviews the rich connotations of intercultural competence, analyzes the new characteristics of intercultural teaching. Then starting with the changes in the relationship between teachers and teaching elements, the article analyzes the role of teachers in intercultural teaching, and proposes coping strategies and suggestions for teachers to better adapt to the needs of intercultural teaching.