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Cultivation of Cross-cultural competence in language teaching

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增大字体作者：教育文稿网来源：教育文稿网发布时间：2009-06-14 15:42:55

In fact, understanding a foreign culture requires putting that culture in relation with one’s own. So the teaching of foreign languages must be made relevant to social life, where people need to communicate with each other in order to set the stage for possible mutual understanding. As learners become more and more proficient in a second language and familiar with a second culture, language learners try to articulate their new experience within their old one, making it relevant to their own lives, one day this way, one day that way, creating their own popular culture. Hence an intercultural approach to the teaching of culture should include a reflection both on the target and on the native culture. Accordingly, in class teachers will guide the students to know about the target culture, to understand the myth and reality of native culture and finally to develop a third perspective. In this way, students are able to take both an insider’s and an outsider’s view on native culture and target culture. So the primary task in the development of cross-cultural competence should be not so much to fill one frame with different contents, but to make explicit the boundaries of the frame and try out a different one.

To better achieve the aims to bring culture into a classroom teachers should be encouraged to recognize the rupture points in the logic of the explanations brought forth by their students in order to bring cross-cultural aspects of communication to the fore. They themselves also should be encouraged to broaden their readings to include, besides literature, studies by social scientists, ethnographers, and sociolinguists on both their society and the societies that speak the language they are teaching in order to cross disciplinary boundaries.