scholarly journals College English Teaching Design and Practice Based on Cross-cultural Theory

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (08) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Zhao ◽  
Shuang Gu ◽  
Shanshan Yu ◽  
Mingli Gao
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
College English ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Teaching Content ◽  
Education Theory ◽  
Culture Teaching

The theoretical bases for the thesis are cross-cultural foreign language education theory, systemic education theory and multimedia-assisted English teaching theory. At first, the thesis summarizes and analyzes every unit involving cultural knowledge in College English textbook Oxford English used in Shanghai at present, demonstrating the feasibility of culture teaching in the elementary stage of College English. Then based on systemic teaching theories, the thesis analyzes teaching aim, teaching demand, teaching environment, teaching content, teaching strategies, evaluative strategies and implementation of culture teaching. Next, the thesis designs specific courses to match daily teaching activities by way of collecting culture teaching materials, designing culture teaching content and relevant teaching strategies. When designing specific courses, I take advice from experts and teachers on the front, develop three teaching cases and use courseware for teaching practice.

scholarly journals On Culture Infiltration and the Strategy Integrated with Specialty Characteristics in College English Teaching

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Juan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
College English ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Basic Language ◽  
Culture Teaching ◽  
Major Carrier

Language is an indispensable part of culture, and it is also a major carrier and medium of culture communication and transmission. Learning a foreign language means not only learning basic language knowledge, training and improving the ability of listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating, but enriching the cross-cultural awareness, cultivating cross-cultural communication competence and making the voice of native culture to communicate with the outside world. Thus, more and more educators and teachers at home and aboard have come to realize the importance of culture teaching in language learning. This paper focuses on inputting culture teaching in College English teaching integrated with specialty characteristics. The importance of culture teaching in college English teaching is analyzed and emphasized and several inspirational and referential strategies of culture teaching integrated with specialty characteristics are also provided.

scholarly journals A Study of Chinese Culture Aphasia in College English Teaching in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 309
Author(s):  
Jie Song ◽  
Lin Bai
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Target Language ◽  
College English ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Effective Teaching Strategies ◽  
Culture Teaching ◽  
Feasible Solutions

The relationship between language and culture make culture teaching enter into FLE that cultural understanding of the target language is indispensable. But much emphasis on western culture led to Chinese culture aphasia among Chinese English learners. Consequently, an investigation is conducted in this paper to check whether the phenomenon exists; and if so, to test the extent, reasons and feasible solutions of students’ aphasia of Chinese culture. The results demonstrate the tested college students master the Chinese culture well, but have difficulties in translating them into English and some college English teachers are not proficient in translating sentences containing Chinese culture into English. Chinese Culture Aphasia is due mainly to lacking of Chinese culture in college English teaching class. Based on analyzing results of the investigation and summarizing scholars’ teaching strategies, the author claims the incorporation of Chinese culture into college English teaching adhering to certain principles, effective teaching strategies including preparing reasonable syllabus and improving teachers’ comprehensive qualities.

A study on the construction of O2O teaching system of college English cross-cultural knowledge based on MOOC artificial intelligence

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Min Li ◽  
He Lv
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Fitness Function ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Teaching System ◽  
College English ◽  
English Teaching

In this paper, MOOC-based O2O Teaching System for college English cross - cultural knowledge is introduced to improve the 3P model of traditional English teaching through data analysis of the combined and optimized fitness function and social evolution operator. First, through analyzing and summarizing a large number of domestic and foreign literatures and research results, the construction scheme of MOOC-based O2O Teaching System for college English cross-cultural knowledge was established. Moreover, this paper studies the construction mode of MOOC-based O2O Teaching System for college English cross-cultural knowledge and finally establishes the teaching system, and concludes that colleges and universities should pay attention to the cultural difference in English learning, and emphasis on the cultivation of college student cross-cultural knowledge. The specific path is online education combined with offline education for common development, thereby enhancing college students’ English learning ability and practical ability. To sum up, in college English teaching, we should pay attention to the education of English cross-cultural knowledge, O2O mode for cross-cultural knowledge can be used to combine 3P teaching mode and online education mode in MOOC environment, promoting innovation and development of educational methods under the guidance of the constructivism, so as to improve students’ English proficiency.

Cross-Cultural Awareness in College English Teaching

2014 ◽  
Vol 599-601 ◽  
pp. 2011-2013
Author(s):  
Bin Liang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
College English ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Cultural Connotation ◽  
Culture Teaching ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Relationship

the language has the rich cultural connotation, the relationship between language and culture closely. In the process of college English teaching, we should not only focus on language knowledge teaching and language skills training, and to conduct culture teaching, cultivate students' cross-cultural awareness, improve the students' intercultural communicative competence. The article first introduces the definition of culture and cultural awareness and the relationship between language and culture, and then focus on the content and goal of culture teaching, and the ways to cultivate cross-cultural consciousness and methods, etc.

Development of English teaching theory and practice research from the cross-cultural perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 002072092110077
Author(s):  
Shuang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Classroom Culture ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Foreign Teachers ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Cultural Teaching ◽  
Culture Teaching ◽  
Average Proportion

The progress of science and technology and the development of information technology have accelerated the speed of information dissemination and cultural transformation. In the context of multiculturalism, if we want to cultivate talents who can communicate across cultures, domestic English teaching needs further reforms. The unified implementation of English teaching in China has lasted for decades, and the research on teaching theory has gradually formed a stable framework. But from an overall point of view, instillation teaching under test-oriented education is not conducive to improving students' English practice level. In order to solve this problem, this article analyzes the cultural teaching content in college English teaching from a cross-cultural perspective, and emphasizes the importance of cultural infiltration in English teaching. At the same time, it analyzes the problems in teaching practice from multiple aspects of listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation, and puts forward suggestions for the construction of a cross-cultural communication ability training system. Experiments show that in the classes taught by ordinary English teachers, the average proportion of classroom culture teaching is only 14.995%; under the same conditions, the average proportion of classroom culture teaching in the classes taught by foreign teachers reaches 33.865%. Combined with the higher average scores of students in foreign teachers' classes, it can be known that cultural teaching can play a certain role in improving the level of comprehensive English teaching.

Living With Ambiguity: Toward Culture Exploration in Adult Second-Language Classrooms

2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roumiana Ilieva
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Community Culture ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Second Language Education ◽  
Culture Teaching ◽  
Language Classrooms

On the basis of personal experiences with immigration and current conceptualizations of culture in anthropological and culture teaching literature, this article outlines an approach to cultural instruction in adult second-language education, named "culture exploration," which calls for the recognition of ambiguity embedded in cross-cultural encounters. Culture exploration consists of employing techniques of ethnographic participant observation in and outside the classroom and holding reflective, interpretive, and critical classroom discussions on students' ethnographies. It is argued that through culture exploration students can develop an understanding of humans as cultural beings, of the relationship between language and culture, and of the necessity of living with the uncertainty inherent in cross-cultural interactions. Through this process of naming their experience of the target community culture and reflecting on it, it is hoped that students will be in a position to develop their own voice and will be empowered to act to fulfill their own goals in their new environment.

scholarly journals Motivational Teaching Strategies in Indonesian EFL Writing Classrooms

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Yustinus Calvin Gai Mali
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Private University ◽  
First Year ◽  
Motivational Strategies ◽  
English Language Education ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Efl Writing

This qualitative study explores motivational teaching strategies employed in English as a foreign language (EFL) writing classrooms and designs a sample of lesson plans elaborating the strategies that were reflected from open-ended questionnaires of sixty-five first-year students at English Language Education Program in a private university in Indonesia. The data analysis reveals possible motivational strategies that are classified into Dornyei’s (2001) framework of motivational teaching practice. Based on the analysis, the study reinforces a view that teachers can motivate their students to learn and they use particular teaching strategies to motivate their students. Eventually, this study hopes to provide insights for EFL teachers espousing similar teaching practices, so they can enhance their students’ motivation, particularly in their EFL writing classrooms.

scholarly journals An English-language Multimedia Teaching Model Based on Krashen’s Theory

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (08) ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
Fang Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Teaching Mode ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
College English ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Multimedia Teaching

Traditional English teaching practice often centers on the teacher and implements the teaching mode of “exemplifying by the teacher-answering by students-evaluating by the teacher”. This inflexible teaching mode fails to fully exert student’s subjective function; at the same time, due to the lack of necessary guidance and help from teachers, students are more likely to suffer from learning burnout and low self-confidence. With this regard, an English multimedia teaching mode was proposed in this study based on Krashen’s “Language Input Theory”. The theory is characterized by emphasizing the analysis of English language learning from the perspectives of “acquisition” and “learning”, advocating “understanding” of knowledge and using student-centered teaching methods. In this study, Krashen’s theory was combined with interactive learning methods and multimedia information technology to form an English teaching mode focused on “teacher-student”, “student-student” and “student-computer” interactions and build an “in class- after class” and “online-offline” English learning environment. This mode was practically applied in the teaching of “College English” at Hohai University in Jiangsu Province, China. The results show that the English multimedia teaching mode based on Krashen’s theory is more effective than the traditional teaching mode in improving students’ interest and self-confidence in learning.

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