Fostering STEM students’ communicative competence (CC) in English for General Academic Purposes (EGPA) is an urgent and challenging task, which is not only closely linked to students’ academic growth and future care...Fostering STEM students’ communicative competence (CC) in English for General Academic Purposes (EGPA) is an urgent and challenging task, which is not only closely linked to students’ academic growth and future career prospects, but also serves as a core element of academic English teaching reform in China’s STEM universities. However, the traditional teaching paradigm prioritizes the learning of basic academic language knowledge and skills, while neglecting the development of academic CC, resulting in a clear disconnect between learning and practical application. To effectively address these issues, this study focuses on exploring a GenAI-enabled new paradigm for enhancing STEM students’ EGPA CC. Guided by Dialogic Teaching and Situated Learning Theories, it proposes the intelligent dialogic teaching (IDT) paradigm. This paradigm centers on the triadic synergy of “Teacher-GenAI-Student” and is put into practice through the 4R Model (Ready-Rehearse-Review-Refine), aiming to provide a research example and practical guidance for the cultivation of STEM students’ EGPA CC and the innovation of academic English teaching models in STEM universities.展开更多
The essence and composition of intercultural communicative competence have long been core proposition in academic research.Existing theories are mostly limited by Western-centrism and the separation of value and compe...The essence and composition of intercultural communicative competence have long been core proposition in academic research.Existing theories are mostly limited by Western-centrism and the separation of value and competence dimensions.Based on the dialectical thinking of the distinction between Dao(the way)and Qi(the instrument)in Chinese philosophy,this paper constructs a model of intercultural communicative competence integrating attitudinal values and metacognition.With the four-stage system of“appreciating one’s own culture,appreciating others’cultures,achieving harmony in diversity,and pursuing universal unity”as the core of attitudinal values,the model takes the metacognitive knowledge dimension of self-cognition,other-cognition,task-cognition and strategy-cognition,as well as the metacognitive behavioral dimension of monitoring,reflection and regulation as its practical approach,revealing the dialectical relationship of the unity of Ti(substance)and Yong(function)and the circulation of knowledge and practice among all dimensions.Breaking through the instrumental rationality limitations of existing models,this study elevates intercultural competence from skill adaptation to a spiritual practice of civilizational symbiosis,and provides a new paradigm with both local subjectivity and academic inclusiveness for the theoretical construction of intercultural communicative competence in the era of globalization.展开更多
To address the imbalanced predicament of“overemphasis on foreign cultures and absence of local cultures”in college English intercultural communication courses,this study explores the impact of integrating Excellent ...To address the imbalanced predicament of“overemphasis on foreign cultures and absence of local cultures”in college English intercultural communication courses,this study explores the impact of integrating Excellent Traditional Chinese Culture(ETCC)into such courses on students’intercultural communicative competence(ICC).It sorts out the three-stage evolutionary characteristics of integrating Chinese culture into foreign language education,namely“cultural attachment-cultural compensation-cultural symbiosis”,and points out the insufficiency of current empirical research.Based on the two-dimensional interactive model of“attitudes and values-metacognition”,and supported by the practical framework of“diversified learning coordination-teaching method matrix-full-link integration”,a quasi-experimental study was conducted.The results show that the experimental group achieved significantly better improvements than the control group in the cognition of traditional culture and the attitudinal,cognitive and behavioral dimensions of ICC.The study proposes the mechanism of“local cultural feedback”,providing theoretical support and a practical paradigm for the reform of intercultural communication courses.展开更多
As global business communication becomes increasingly important,the development of intercultural communicative competence(ICC)has become a central goal in Business English teaching in Chinese universities.However,many...As global business communication becomes increasingly important,the development of intercultural communicative competence(ICC)has become a central goal in Business English teaching in Chinese universities.However,many Chinese university students enter the workplace with limited ability to communicate effectively across cultural boundaries,despite years of formal English education.This paper reviews existing literature on the main challenges that prevent Chinese students from developing ICC in Business English contexts,and examines a range of teaching strategies that have been proposed to address these challenges.The challenges identified include:a limited awareness of cultural differences,the influence of Chinese communication styles on cross-cultural interaction,and the exam-oriented nature of the Chinese education system,which tends to reduce learning motivation and limit exposure to real-world business communication.In response to these challenges,this paper evaluates four key pedagogical strategies:the use of authentic materials and case studies,roleplay and simulation activities,intercultural comparison tasks,and project-based learning.The review finds that these strategies are most effective when they are used together and when they are designed to connect classroom learning to real communicative situations.This paper aims to offer practical guidance for Business English teachers in Chinese universities who wish to integrate ICC development more effectively into their teaching.展开更多
The purpose of this study is to determine the students’perceptions of the role of social media in developing communicative competence of senior high school students.Qualitative research method is used to conduct the ...The purpose of this study is to determine the students’perceptions of the role of social media in developing communicative competence of senior high school students.Qualitative research method is used to conduct the research wherein a set of structured interview questions is asked to the senior high school students of Cuenca Senior High School in Cuenca,Batangas.The structured interview questions that are used in the research help in covering different aspects of the study,including the roles of social media in developing communicative competence of the students,how social media affects the communicative competence of the students,and proposed activities to engage other students to use social media.The results show that students perceived the role of social media as very important,effective,and useful in developing the communicative competence of the students,as it serves as a tool in expressing one’s idea.It gives access to videos that motivate the students to improve their communicative skills.It easily catches the attention of the students to listen and watch for them to be good communicators.It exercises the speaking skills of the students as they learn to imitate the way people speak on their gadgets.This study also shows how the role of social media affects the development of communicative competence of students,as it enhances the speaking skills and gives the learners the desire to study.Lastly,students also conduct varied activities to engage other students in developing their communicative competence using social media.These includes like making video about your desired topic,recording an English song,creating a documentary using English language,making a commercial,recording an English speech,recording a short drama with your classmates,actual conversation with your classmate about English topic using social media,phone interview about job application using English language,voice recording to check if the English words are properly pronounced,video recording of a talk show,radio announcement of the current news,recording a video of variety show,recording a video of TV news reports,creating blogs,recording a video of hosting a beauty pageant,and calling your friend,recording a video about game show and recording your conversation using English language.By integrating these approaches,senior high school students conclude that other students will be motivated to improve their communication skills.展开更多
With the development of globalization,intercultural communicative competence has become one of the core qualities of modern college students.As an important platform to cultivate students’language skills and cultural...With the development of globalization,intercultural communicative competence has become one of the core qualities of modern college students.As an important platform to cultivate students’language skills and cultural literacy,the innovation of college English teaching mode is essential.Based on this,this paper mainly discusses methods to effectively cultivate students’intercultural communicative competence in college English teaching from the perspective of multimodal interactive teaching mode,hoping to provide references for improving the quality of college English teaching and students’comprehensive quality.展开更多
The launch of the Belt and Road Initiative in China calls for a paradigm shift in theory and practice of foreign language(FL)teaching from a communicative language teaching approach(CLT)to intercultural language teach...The launch of the Belt and Road Initiative in China calls for a paradigm shift in theory and practice of foreign language(FL)teaching from a communicative language teaching approach(CLT)to intercultural language teaching(ICLT),which treats intercultural communicative competence(ICC)as the core of FL education.Unfortunately,the College English Curriculum Requirements of China(CECR)does not specify the aspects for cultural teaching or assessment;nor does it provide any theoretical or practical guidance for teachers on how to teach or assess ICC.This leads to teachers’confusion about what should be taught and assessed and how,hence to a deficiency in real actions.In this paper,we first outline the learning outcomes of ICLT-oriented courses,the ICC components which respectively fall into the categories of intercultural attitude,knowledge and skills.By presenting the pedagogical practice of a cultural literacy course,we also demonstrate how FL teachers can help learners achieve these learning outcomes through a fivestage instruction process.Finally,we discuss how these learning outcomes can be assessed using formative and summative assessment tools,especially how ICC components can be incorporated into a comprehensive test of FL.展开更多
With the development of world globalization, English works as a lingua franca for intercultural communication among different cultures in the world. This shift implies that introducing solely English native speaking c...With the development of world globalization, English works as a lingua franca for intercultural communication among different cultures in the world. This shift implies that introducing solely English native speaking cultures to students is not sufficient for their needs. This paper depicts the reflective teaching process of my ten years of experience of teaching intercultural communication.The paper describes how the teacher systematically reflects on the practice of teaching,continuously revises the curriculum, and finally formulates an efficient model of integrating students’ personal experiences into developing students’ intercultural communicative competence and awareness. This reflective study attempts to provide some pedagogical implications for intercultural communication education.展开更多
This article clarifies the connotation of intercultural communicative competence and the difference between communicative competence and intercultural communicative competence. Based on the data collected from the que...This article clarifies the connotation of intercultural communicative competence and the difference between communicative competence and intercultural communicative competence. Based on the data collected from the questionnaire, the study investigated the current situation of English majors' intercultural communicative competence and discussed the problems in developing the learners' intercultural communicative competence. The article also offers some suggestions on the new aim of foreign language teaching and cultural teaching methodology, etc.展开更多
Under the background of development of Hainan Free Trade Zone(port)to meet its demand of English language talents with good intercultural communication competence,an empirical study is conducted to evaluate vocational...Under the background of development of Hainan Free Trade Zone(port)to meet its demand of English language talents with good intercultural communication competence,an empirical study is conducted to evaluate vocational college students’communicative competence of intercultural communication.The results indicate that among the five factors of communicative competence of intercultural communication,students’listening competence is the highest,followed successively by oral competence,strategic competence,sociolinguistic competence,discourse competence.The analytical results show that each factor among the five factors are positively correlated with the other four factors.Moreover,students’scores in college English Test(Grade A)have a positive correlation with their oral English competence,discourse competence and sociolinguistic competence,respectively.展开更多
Against the background of the development of the Hainan Free Trade Port,an empirical study is carried out to investigate the communicative compe-tence of students with tourism-related majors in Hainan vocational colle...Against the background of the development of the Hainan Free Trade Port,an empirical study is carried out to investigate the communicative compe-tence of students with tourism-related majors in Hainan vocational colleges from the perspectives of linguistic competence,sociolinguistic competence,discourse competence and strategic competence,and linguistic competence,which consists of listening ability and oral language ability.The results indicate that among thefive factors of communicative competence,oral language ability is the highest,fol-lowed by listening ability,strategic competence,and sociolinguistic competence,and discourse competence is the weakest.It is also concluded from the study that the overseas travel experience or willingness of students and their contact with foreigners have a positive influence on their communicative competence,which shows the importance of intercultural communication in real situations.The com-municative competence of students of tourism-related majors in Hainan vocational colleges is not satisfactory.The analytical results also show that each factor among the four dimensions is positively correlated with each other.展开更多
In the activity of English teaching, how to improve students' communicative competence is always deemed as an important factor on which English teaching hinges. This paper starts from the idea of communicative compet...In the activity of English teaching, how to improve students' communicative competence is always deemed as an important factor on which English teaching hinges. This paper starts from the idea of communicative competence proposed by linguist Dwell Hymes and then goes deep to find out 4 ways to apply the ideas to spoken English teaching, namely: strengthening students' linguistic input through comprehensible listening; getting a feel of how English is spoken idiomatically; administering the teaching materials according to students' current linguistic capacity and finally exposing students massively to the target culture. Since this paper is about teaching, the discussion of teacher's role will be dealt with at the last part.展开更多
In order to cultivate middle school students’English communicative competence,CLT has become an influential ap⁃proach.Some ways need to be adopted such as reform of teaching materials,transformation of English teach...In order to cultivate middle school students’English communicative competence,CLT has become an influential ap⁃proach.Some ways need to be adopted such as reform of teaching materials,transformation of English teachers’role and change of students’role and testing system.展开更多
With the spread of English language around the world and its status as an international language, the need for more communication is felt. One pivoting aspect of this communication is the role of culture which can con...With the spread of English language around the world and its status as an international language, the need for more communication is felt. One pivoting aspect of this communication is the role of culture which can contribute to the success of communication at the global level and the co-construction of identities as individuals from different parts of the world get into interactions. Thus, the role of materials developed for learning English, especially the local ones, in the improvement of individuals' intercultural competence is significant. New course books for learning English at Iranian secondary schools entitled Prospect series have been developed recently. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to evaluate the first and the second books of this series in light of Byram's model of Intercultural Communicative Competence (1CC). Based on this model, ICC consists of three dimensions of attitude, knowledge, skills, and five saviors of knowledge, attitude, discovery, interaction, and critical thinking. To do the evaluation of the course books, the checklist developed based on these five saviors was used to evaluate the tasks for each unit of the books. The evaluation was done separately by each of the researchers in the study and inter-rater reliability showed a high level of Cronbach alpha. The findings indicated that about 90 percent of the activities of Prospect 1 and Prospect 2 lack the skills required for improving English language learners' ICC. They mostly focus on Iranian culture which might have been improved via learners' first language as well. This might imply the need for the adaptation of Prospect series activities in light of ICC so that Iranian English language learners can take advantage of their communication with the rest of the world.展开更多
This study investigates the communicative competence of Chinese students in a British university, and the main purposes of the study are to find out more about Chinese students' difficulties in communication and to e...This study investigates the communicative competence of Chinese students in a British university, and the main purposes of the study are to find out more about Chinese students' difficulties in communication and to explore learning strategies of developing communicative competence. The research results show that Chinese students had both linguistic and socio-cultural problems in communication. Two case studies are presented of good and less good communicators to show up different patterns of communicative performance and learning strategies. In conclusion, a range of findings support the statement that attitudes, motivation and immersion were important in the development of communicative competence.展开更多
Language is closely related to culture. Language learning is not only the process of improving the learner's linguistic and communicative competence, but also the process of learning the culture of the target languag...Language is closely related to culture. Language learning is not only the process of improving the learner's linguistic and communicative competence, but also the process of learning the culture of the target language. Based on the above view, the author offers a clarifying analysis of the effect for cultural awareness and then suggests some approaches to increase the learner's cross- cultural awareness.展开更多
This paper tried to demonstrate the developmental history of the concept "communicative competence" from three representative models, i.e. Hymes, Canale and Swain, and Bachman in order to find out the interrelations...This paper tried to demonstrate the developmental history of the concept "communicative competence" from three representative models, i.e. Hymes, Canale and Swain, and Bachman in order to find out the interrelationship between communicative competence and actual communication. This discussion highlights three components---organizational competence, pragmatic competence and strategic competence in Bachman's. Only when we have knowledge of language and the capacity to execute the competence, could we apply the communicative pedagogical applications properly into the Communicate Language Teaching (CLT) to achieve these competences.展开更多
The teaching of German as a Foreign Language(DaF)aims to prepare students who study German and take the DaF exam for their professional studies in German universities.Therefore,it is important to integrate the element...The teaching of German as a Foreign Language(DaF)aims to prepare students who study German and take the DaF exam for their professional studies in German universities.Therefore,it is important to integrate the elements of specialised language knowledge and develop the students’professional communicative competence in the Test DaF curriculum.This paper identifies the specialized language knowledge and professional communicative competence that should be incorporated in German language teaching,based on the objectives of the DaF examination.展开更多
Many university students in China remain less competent in addressing all kinds of communication breakdowns. And the classical teaching approach has long been put in question in the contemporary literature. Communicat...Many university students in China remain less competent in addressing all kinds of communication breakdowns. And the classical teaching approach has long been put in question in the contemporary literature. Communicative strategies have an intimate relationship with communicative competence. Learners' effective and efficient employment of communicative strategies are the revelation of their strategic competence as well as communicative competence. This paper aims to reinforce learners' communicative competence by improving their communicative strategies and consequently improve their language proficiency, and helps to provide Chinese teachers with approaches to the development of students' communication strategies in classroom teaching. Therefore, in contrast with the old classroom teaching "TTT", a new teaching model "LLL" is proposed in this paper.展开更多
摘要Fostering STEM students’ communicative competence (CC) in English for General Academic Purposes (EGPA) is an urgent and challenging task, which is not only closely linked to students’ academic growth and future career prospects, but also serves as a core element of academic English teaching reform in China’s STEM universities. However, the traditional teaching paradigm prioritizes the learning of basic academic language knowledge and skills, while neglecting the development of academic CC, resulting in a clear disconnect between learning and practical application. To effectively address these issues, this study focuses on exploring a GenAI-enabled new paradigm for enhancing STEM students’ EGPA CC. Guided by Dialogic Teaching and Situated Learning Theories, it proposes the intelligent dialogic teaching (IDT) paradigm. This paradigm centers on the triadic synergy of “Teacher-GenAI-Student” and is put into practice through the 4R Model (Ready-Rehearse-Review-Refine), aiming to provide a research example and practical guidance for the cultivation of STEM students’ EGPA CC and the innovation of academic English teaching models in STEM universities.
基金research achievement of“A Study on the Value and Path of Integrating Excellent Traditional Chinese Culture Into Intercultural Communication Courses”(ZD2024)the Beijing Higher Education Association,as well as“A Study on the Path of Empowering the Integration of Excellent Traditional Chinese Culture Into Intercultural Communication Courses With Generative AI”(2024),an institutional project of Beijing International Studies University.
摘要The essence and composition of intercultural communicative competence have long been core proposition in academic research.Existing theories are mostly limited by Western-centrism and the separation of value and competence dimensions.Based on the dialectical thinking of the distinction between Dao(the way)and Qi(the instrument)in Chinese philosophy,this paper constructs a model of intercultural communicative competence integrating attitudinal values and metacognition.With the four-stage system of“appreciating one’s own culture,appreciating others’cultures,achieving harmony in diversity,and pursuing universal unity”as the core of attitudinal values,the model takes the metacognitive knowledge dimension of self-cognition,other-cognition,task-cognition and strategy-cognition,as well as the metacognitive behavioral dimension of monitoring,reflection and regulation as its practical approach,revealing the dialectical relationship of the unity of Ti(substance)and Yong(function)and the circulation of knowledge and practice among all dimensions.Breaking through the instrumental rationality limitations of existing models,this study elevates intercultural competence from skill adaptation to a spiritual practice of civilizational symbiosis,and provides a new paradigm with both local subjectivity and academic inclusiveness for the theoretical construction of intercultural communicative competence in the era of globalization.
基金This paper is a research achievement of“A Study on the Value and Path of Integrating Excellent Traditional Chinese Culture Into Intercultural Communication Courses”(ZD2024)a project by the Beijing Higher Education Association,as well as“A Study on the Path of Empowering the Integration of Excellent Traditional Chinese Culture Into Intercultural Communication Courses With Generative AI”(2024),an institutional project of Beijing International Studies University.
摘要To address the imbalanced predicament of“overemphasis on foreign cultures and absence of local cultures”in college English intercultural communication courses,this study explores the impact of integrating Excellent Traditional Chinese Culture(ETCC)into such courses on students’intercultural communicative competence(ICC).It sorts out the three-stage evolutionary characteristics of integrating Chinese culture into foreign language education,namely“cultural attachment-cultural compensation-cultural symbiosis”,and points out the insufficiency of current empirical research.Based on the two-dimensional interactive model of“attitudes and values-metacognition”,and supported by the practical framework of“diversified learning coordination-teaching method matrix-full-link integration”,a quasi-experimental study was conducted.The results show that the experimental group achieved significantly better improvements than the control group in the cognition of traditional culture and the attitudinal,cognitive and behavioral dimensions of ICC.The study proposes the mechanism of“local cultural feedback”,providing theoretical support and a practical paradigm for the reform of intercultural communication courses.
摘要As global business communication becomes increasingly important,the development of intercultural communicative competence(ICC)has become a central goal in Business English teaching in Chinese universities.However,many Chinese university students enter the workplace with limited ability to communicate effectively across cultural boundaries,despite years of formal English education.This paper reviews existing literature on the main challenges that prevent Chinese students from developing ICC in Business English contexts,and examines a range of teaching strategies that have been proposed to address these challenges.The challenges identified include:a limited awareness of cultural differences,the influence of Chinese communication styles on cross-cultural interaction,and the exam-oriented nature of the Chinese education system,which tends to reduce learning motivation and limit exposure to real-world business communication.In response to these challenges,this paper evaluates four key pedagogical strategies:the use of authentic materials and case studies,roleplay and simulation activities,intercultural comparison tasks,and project-based learning.The review finds that these strategies are most effective when they are used together and when they are designed to connect classroom learning to real communicative situations.This paper aims to offer practical guidance for Business English teachers in Chinese universities who wish to integrate ICC development more effectively into their teaching.
摘要The purpose of this study is to determine the students’perceptions of the role of social media in developing communicative competence of senior high school students.Qualitative research method is used to conduct the research wherein a set of structured interview questions is asked to the senior high school students of Cuenca Senior High School in Cuenca,Batangas.The structured interview questions that are used in the research help in covering different aspects of the study,including the roles of social media in developing communicative competence of the students,how social media affects the communicative competence of the students,and proposed activities to engage other students to use social media.The results show that students perceived the role of social media as very important,effective,and useful in developing the communicative competence of the students,as it serves as a tool in expressing one’s idea.It gives access to videos that motivate the students to improve their communicative skills.It easily catches the attention of the students to listen and watch for them to be good communicators.It exercises the speaking skills of the students as they learn to imitate the way people speak on their gadgets.This study also shows how the role of social media affects the development of communicative competence of students,as it enhances the speaking skills and gives the learners the desire to study.Lastly,students also conduct varied activities to engage other students in developing their communicative competence using social media.These includes like making video about your desired topic,recording an English song,creating a documentary using English language,making a commercial,recording an English speech,recording a short drama with your classmates,actual conversation with your classmate about English topic using social media,phone interview about job application using English language,voice recording to check if the English words are properly pronounced,video recording of a talk show,radio announcement of the current news,recording a video of variety show,recording a video of TV news reports,creating blogs,recording a video of hosting a beauty pageant,and calling your friend,recording a video about game show and recording your conversation using English language.By integrating these approaches,senior high school students conclude that other students will be motivated to improve their communication skills.
摘要With the development of globalization,intercultural communicative competence has become one of the core qualities of modern college students.As an important platform to cultivate students’language skills and cultural literacy,the innovation of college English teaching mode is essential.Based on this,this paper mainly discusses methods to effectively cultivate students’intercultural communicative competence in college English teaching from the perspective of multimodal interactive teaching mode,hoping to provide references for improving the quality of college English teaching and students’comprehensive quality.
基金This study is financially supported by Heilongjiang Key Project of Economic and Social Development(WY2017003-A)the“14th Five-Year Planning”Key project of Heilongjiang Educational Science(GJB1421043)+3 种基金Philosophy and Social Science Prosperity Project of Harbin Institute of Technology(HIT.HSS.202128)Postgraduate Education Reform Project of Harbin Institute of Technology(21MS044)Postgraduate Education Reform Project of Harbin Institute of Technology(21MS047)Teacher Development Project of Harbin Institute of Technology(XSZ2019078).
摘要The launch of the Belt and Road Initiative in China calls for a paradigm shift in theory and practice of foreign language(FL)teaching from a communicative language teaching approach(CLT)to intercultural language teaching(ICLT),which treats intercultural communicative competence(ICC)as the core of FL education.Unfortunately,the College English Curriculum Requirements of China(CECR)does not specify the aspects for cultural teaching or assessment;nor does it provide any theoretical or practical guidance for teachers on how to teach or assess ICC.This leads to teachers’confusion about what should be taught and assessed and how,hence to a deficiency in real actions.In this paper,we first outline the learning outcomes of ICLT-oriented courses,the ICC components which respectively fall into the categories of intercultural attitude,knowledge and skills.By presenting the pedagogical practice of a cultural literacy course,we also demonstrate how FL teachers can help learners achieve these learning outcomes through a fivestage instruction process.Finally,we discuss how these learning outcomes can be assessed using formative and summative assessment tools,especially how ICC components can be incorporated into a comprehensive test of FL.
摘要With the development of world globalization, English works as a lingua franca for intercultural communication among different cultures in the world. This shift implies that introducing solely English native speaking cultures to students is not sufficient for their needs. This paper depicts the reflective teaching process of my ten years of experience of teaching intercultural communication.The paper describes how the teacher systematically reflects on the practice of teaching,continuously revises the curriculum, and finally formulates an efficient model of integrating students’ personal experiences into developing students’ intercultural communicative competence and awareness. This reflective study attempts to provide some pedagogical implications for intercultural communication education.
摘要This article clarifies the connotation of intercultural communicative competence and the difference between communicative competence and intercultural communicative competence. Based on the data collected from the questionnaire, the study investigated the current situation of English majors' intercultural communicative competence and discussed the problems in developing the learners' intercultural communicative competence. The article also offers some suggestions on the new aim of foreign language teaching and cultural teaching methodology, etc.
基金the Administration Office of Hainan Province Education Science Planning Leading Group for their support in the research project“The Research on Approach Exploration and Strategies for All People Learning Foreign Language in Hainan Free Trade Zone”(QJC20191011).
摘要Under the background of development of Hainan Free Trade Zone(port)to meet its demand of English language talents with good intercultural communication competence,an empirical study is conducted to evaluate vocational college students’communicative competence of intercultural communication.The results indicate that among the five factors of communicative competence of intercultural communication,students’listening competence is the highest,followed successively by oral competence,strategic competence,sociolinguistic competence,discourse competence.The analytical results show that each factor among the five factors are positively correlated with the other four factors.Moreover,students’scores in college English Test(Grade A)have a positive correlation with their oral English competence,discourse competence and sociolinguistic competence,respectively.
摘要Against the background of the development of the Hainan Free Trade Port,an empirical study is carried out to investigate the communicative compe-tence of students with tourism-related majors in Hainan vocational colleges from the perspectives of linguistic competence,sociolinguistic competence,discourse competence and strategic competence,and linguistic competence,which consists of listening ability and oral language ability.The results indicate that among thefive factors of communicative competence,oral language ability is the highest,fol-lowed by listening ability,strategic competence,and sociolinguistic competence,and discourse competence is the weakest.It is also concluded from the study that the overseas travel experience or willingness of students and their contact with foreigners have a positive influence on their communicative competence,which shows the importance of intercultural communication in real situations.The com-municative competence of students of tourism-related majors in Hainan vocational colleges is not satisfactory.The analytical results also show that each factor among the four dimensions is positively correlated with each other.
摘要In the activity of English teaching, how to improve students' communicative competence is always deemed as an important factor on which English teaching hinges. This paper starts from the idea of communicative competence proposed by linguist Dwell Hymes and then goes deep to find out 4 ways to apply the ideas to spoken English teaching, namely: strengthening students' linguistic input through comprehensible listening; getting a feel of how English is spoken idiomatically; administering the teaching materials according to students' current linguistic capacity and finally exposing students massively to the target culture. Since this paper is about teaching, the discussion of teacher's role will be dealt with at the last part.
摘要In order to cultivate middle school students’English communicative competence,CLT has become an influential ap⁃proach.Some ways need to be adopted such as reform of teaching materials,transformation of English teachers’role and change of students’role and testing system.
摘要With the spread of English language around the world and its status as an international language, the need for more communication is felt. One pivoting aspect of this communication is the role of culture which can contribute to the success of communication at the global level and the co-construction of identities as individuals from different parts of the world get into interactions. Thus, the role of materials developed for learning English, especially the local ones, in the improvement of individuals' intercultural competence is significant. New course books for learning English at Iranian secondary schools entitled Prospect series have been developed recently. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to evaluate the first and the second books of this series in light of Byram's model of Intercultural Communicative Competence (1CC). Based on this model, ICC consists of three dimensions of attitude, knowledge, skills, and five saviors of knowledge, attitude, discovery, interaction, and critical thinking. To do the evaluation of the course books, the checklist developed based on these five saviors was used to evaluate the tasks for each unit of the books. The evaluation was done separately by each of the researchers in the study and inter-rater reliability showed a high level of Cronbach alpha. The findings indicated that about 90 percent of the activities of Prospect 1 and Prospect 2 lack the skills required for improving English language learners' ICC. They mostly focus on Iranian culture which might have been improved via learners' first language as well. This might imply the need for the adaptation of Prospect series activities in light of ICC so that Iranian English language learners can take advantage of their communication with the rest of the world.
摘要This study investigates the communicative competence of Chinese students in a British university, and the main purposes of the study are to find out more about Chinese students' difficulties in communication and to explore learning strategies of developing communicative competence. The research results show that Chinese students had both linguistic and socio-cultural problems in communication. Two case studies are presented of good and less good communicators to show up different patterns of communicative performance and learning strategies. In conclusion, a range of findings support the statement that attitudes, motivation and immersion were important in the development of communicative competence.
摘要Language is closely related to culture. Language learning is not only the process of improving the learner's linguistic and communicative competence, but also the process of learning the culture of the target language. Based on the above view, the author offers a clarifying analysis of the effect for cultural awareness and then suggests some approaches to increase the learner's cross- cultural awareness.
摘要This paper tried to demonstrate the developmental history of the concept "communicative competence" from three representative models, i.e. Hymes, Canale and Swain, and Bachman in order to find out the interrelationship between communicative competence and actual communication. This discussion highlights three components---organizational competence, pragmatic competence and strategic competence in Bachman's. Only when we have knowledge of language and the capacity to execute the competence, could we apply the communicative pedagogical applications properly into the Communicate Language Teaching (CLT) to achieve these competences.
摘要The teaching of German as a Foreign Language(DaF)aims to prepare students who study German and take the DaF exam for their professional studies in German universities.Therefore,it is important to integrate the elements of specialised language knowledge and develop the students’professional communicative competence in the Test DaF curriculum.This paper identifies the specialized language knowledge and professional communicative competence that should be incorporated in German language teaching,based on the objectives of the DaF examination.
摘要Many university students in China remain less competent in addressing all kinds of communication breakdowns. And the classical teaching approach has long been put in question in the contemporary literature. Communicative strategies have an intimate relationship with communicative competence. Learners' effective and efficient employment of communicative strategies are the revelation of their strategic competence as well as communicative competence. This paper aims to reinforce learners' communicative competence by improving their communicative strategies and consequently improve their language proficiency, and helps to provide Chinese teachers with approaches to the development of students' communication strategies in classroom teaching. Therefore, in contrast with the old classroom teaching "TTT", a new teaching model "LLL" is proposed in this paper.