How Chinese college students make sense of foreign films and TV series: implications for the development of intercultural communicative competence in ELT

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Hui Yang ◽  
Mike Fleming
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Chinese College Students

Reflecting on Native Culture Involvement in Current College English Textbooks

2011 ◽  
Vol 219-220 ◽  
pp. 257-260
Author(s):  
Chun Mei Wu
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
College English ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
English Textbooks

Nowadays, most of the Chinese college students acquire more about target language culture than their native culture. Judging from the present distinctive sets of college English textbooks, there exists one common problem: Chinese culture is seldom involved in the textbooks. The textbook is viewed as the very crucial means to cultivate learners’ intercultural communicative competence(ICC). The overwhelming majority of textbook editors attach more importance to the target language culture, neglecting Chinese culture , which results in students’ being poor in ICC. As a successful communicator, proficiency in both the target language and the native language are required of college students.Based on the findings of a survey and a questionnaire, the author proposes some suggestions on textbook reforms with the purpose of promoting students’ ICC.

scholarly journals Intercultural Communicative Competence Teaching and Assessment Based on Modern Information Technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (07) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Peng Bingzhuan
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
College Student ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Assessment Scale ◽  
Teaching Model ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Modern Information Technology ◽  
Modern Information

The integrated and internationalized global economy, international exchanges, and cultural integration increased the frequency of intercultural communication, calling for intercultural communication talents. Thus, the cultivation of students’ intercultural communication skills garnered widespread attention. To better and fairly assess college students’ actual Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) and effectively cultivate students’ ICC, first, this study comprehensively explored the internal relationship between linguistic subjectivity and intercultural communication. Second, an ICC teaching model from the perspective of linguistic subjectivity based on modern information technology (MIT) was constructed, and a college student ICC assessment scale covering 7 dimensions and 36 variables was designed. Finally, an empirical teaching experiment was conducted to verify the credibility and validity of the constructed teaching model and assessment scale. Results show that the 7 dimensions and 36 variables of the constructed assessment scale can effectively measure students’ ICC. Students’ ICC can be enhanced by exploring the college student ICC teaching model from the perspective of linguistic subjectivity based on MIT, and the backwash effect of ICC teaching and assessment can effectively boost college students’ intercultural communicative sensitivity, comprehensive cultural literacy, and practical language application skills.

scholarly journals Research on the cultivation of College Students’ intercultural communicative competence based on the technology of multimedia immersion in 5G Era

2021 ◽  
Vol 251 ◽  
pp. 03076
Author(s):  
Yong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Communication Ability

One belt, one road initiative, China needs comprehensive talents with international vision, international working background, international finance and international economic management. In order to improve college students’ intercultural communicative competence, China attaches importance to foreign cultural exchange and comprehensively improves the cultivation of foreign communicative competence. Students’ awareness of cross-cultural communication is weak and their communicative competence is lacking. In addition to enriching students’ cross-cultural communication ability, it is urgent to cultivate students’ comprehensive language competence. The rapid changes and development of economic globalization and information technology have promoted the frequent communication between different cultures. Such a development trend also puts forward higher requirements for the talent training of university teaching at this stage. The teaching of each university pays more attention to the application ability of language knowledge and the ability of international communication and communication in the future work and social communication. In the actual teaching process, due to the lack of practical communicative situations, most of the teaching still stay in the aspects of historical and cultural background, mode of thinking, pragmatic principles, values and social norms of different nationalities, and there are few opportunities to experience the coding and decoding in actual communication, and the related obstacles and misunderstandings in the process are even more difficult to understand. Therefore, cross-cultural practice should be placed on the same important position as the cognition of language and culture knowledge. Combined with the rapid development of network information technology, the creation of optimized teaching and practice integration paradigm has become the research and development trend of cultivating cross-cultural communication ability in today’s information society.

Effectiveness of an Acculturation Programme in Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) in EFL College Students: A Mixed-Methods Investigation

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2A) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamad Aldosari ◽  
Mohamed Mekheimer
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Study Groups ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Development Of Language ◽  
Efl College Students

Abstract This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of an acculturation programme designed for college learners. The researchers utilized an experimental research design involving a pretest, a posttest and a control group, and collected both quantitative and qualitative data. The participants were chosen by convenience (N=52) from different scientific colleges who joined a language enhancement programme (LEP), equally distributed to the study groups. The acculturation programme was designed specifically to stimulate and awaken the experimental participants' intercultural communicative competencies for one academic year. Findings from the t-test comparisons, effect size and the Blake’s gain ratio corroborate the effectiveness of the acculturation programme on developing intercultural communication competency in experimental participants. Qualitative data from the interviews affirm the results of quantitative data analysis, revealing six themes that verify the ICC survey results. Finally, the study concludes that the development of ICC skills can occur along with the development of language proficiency in college students. Keywords: cultural content, communicative language learning, teaching methods, Intercultural Communicative Competence, EFL, Acculturation programme

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