The Problem of Intercultural Communication in English Teaching in University

Abstract

To learn a foreign language, you have to master the knowledge, skills and also have to understand the language which reflected the foreign culture, so as to overcome cultural barriers, communicate with foreigners decently and effectively and have emotional communication and cross-cultural communication. This requires us to do a good job in the language teaching in university English teaching stage, we must have the language and cultural teaching communication. Therefore, how to use language correctly and appropriately is an important part of the intercultural communicative competence. Intercultural communicative competence plays a vital role for the cultivation of language and communication ability, intercultural communication is a new “edge” subject, which has a close relationship with English teaching. As the university English teachers in the new era, we should undertake the new mission, combine the language teaching with culture teaching, and develop students’ intercultural communicative competence. Keywords—intercultural Communication; English Teaching