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1、TheCultivationofCross-CulturalAwarenessinEnglishTeachingAbstract:Byputtingcertainideasaboutcommunication,culture,society,educationandhumanpsychologytogether,adifferentwayoffacingwithandlearningaboutinteractionamongcultureshasemerged.Soamulti-disciplinaryapproachtothestud
2、yofinter-culturecontactandinteractionhaswidenedanddeepenedtheresearchinthisfield.Furthermore,itisnecessarytohelpstudentstobuildupacertain‘culturalawareness”duringtheteacher’sEnglishTeaching.Thisarticlewillfirstexplaininter-culturecommunicationandhowtodevelopcross-culture
3、awarenessindetails.Meanwhile,thethesisputsforwardsaseriesofstrategiesforcultivatingstudents’culturalawareness,andsystematicallydesignsdifferentculturalactivitiestomakethestudyofcultureanintegralpartofeachlesson.Finally,severalpracticalsuggestionsareproposedfortheforeignl
4、anguageteacherstofulfillthisproject.Keywords:interculturalcommunication;culturalawareness;cultivation;strategies;foreignlanguageteaching1.IntroductionInter-culturalcommunicationhasbeenpromotedsincelate1970smainlyintheUnitedStates.Aswehaveknown,languagediversityhasbecomea
5、prominentissueintheUnitedStates.Peoplelivingwithinthesamegeographicalboundariescanalsouselanguageinwaysthatdifferfromthedominantculture.StudiesofculturalcommunitiesintheUnitedStateswereconsidered‘intra-cultural’,justasAmericawasthoughttorepresentoneculture.Anotherpointis
6、thatbeginninginthe1960s,andcontinuingwellintothe1980s,themissionofinterculturalstudieswaslargelytopreparestudentsfortravelabroad,whichusuallymeantEurope.(陳申,1998:120)While,theinter-culturalcommunicationstudiesinChinaisashortonewith8itsbeginningdatedtotheearlyeighties.Ifw
7、ecompareinterculturalcommunicationstudiesinChinawithsuchstudiesintheUnitedStates,wewillfindsomeimportantdifferences.First,muchoftheresearchininterculturalcommunicationsofarislanguageorientedorlanguagerelated.Thisisbecauseteachersandprofessorsofforeignlanguageswerethefirs
8、ttoembraceinter-culturalcommunicationasadiscipline.Sincetheirchiefgoalininter-culturalstudiesistoimprov