A Multimodal Study of Enhancing Students' Cultural Confidence in College English Teaching in the Context of Intercultural Communication

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1326
Author(s):  
Yuefang Sun

To better meet the demand of our society for the new compound talents with high abilities of intercultural communication, education reforms have been under way for a long time. College English teaching has been explored and perfected in terms of teaching contents and teaching model. This essay has practiced and assessed college English flipped classroom teaching, by carrying out teaching experiments, retrospectively comparing the results college English examinations of clinical medical students of Grade 2014 to 2017, and undertaking the questionnaire. It is concluded that college English flipped classroom teaching is feasible and is of many advantages, but there are still many problems which can’t be neglected. The practice and assessment of college English flipped classroom teaching mentioned in this essay will be significant to English teaching development.


2011 ◽  
Vol 63-64 ◽  
pp. 33-36
Author(s):  
Chun Mei Wu

Cultivating students’ intercultural communication competence( ICC) is the focus of college English teaching. As the textbook is seen as the major vehicle to transmit culture, importance has been attached to the presentation of culture in textbooks, which looms large in students’ ICC. Based on two surveys , the author finds that positive aspects of foreign culture and native culture are presented in textbooks, however, foreign culture is so much in proportion to native culture that ultimately results in students’ failure in ICC. Teachers shoul balance two cultures in teaching, and launch a dialogue between them on the basis of the choice , intergration and balanced utilization of the two cultures. With the two-culture-dialogue, students can promote their ICC effectively.


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