On Cultivating Intercultural Awareness of High School Students in English Teaching

Leilei LIU

Abstract


This paper emphasizes the crucial role of culture teaching in senior high school English teaching and intends to explain how to effectively promote the target culture learning and cultivate high school students’ cultural awareness in a China.


Keywords


Culture; Cultural awareness; High school English teaching; Cultural awareness cultivation

Full Text:

PDF

References


Arasaratnam, L. A., & Doerfel, M. L. (2005). Intercultural communication competence: Identifying key components from multicultural perspectives. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 29(2), 137-63.

Brown, H. D., & Rodgers, T. S. (2002). Doing second language research. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Brislin, R. (1993). Understanding culture’s influence on behavior. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers.

Bennett, J. M. (2008). On becoming a global soul. In V. Savicki (Ed.), Developing intercultural competence and transformation: Theory, research and application in international education (pp.13-31). Sterling: Stylus.

Bennett, M. J. (2009). Defining, measuring, and facilitating intercultural learning: A conceptual introduction to the intercultural education double supplement. Intercultural Education, 20(4), 1-13.

Byram, M. (1997). Teaching and assessing intercultural communicative competence. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Kramsch, C. (2007). Context and culture in language teaching. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.

Chen, G.-M., & Starosta, W. J. (1998). Foundations of intercultural communication. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

Hall, E. T., & Hall, M．R．(1990). Understanding cultural difference: Germans, French and Americans. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press.

Hill, I. (2006). Student types, school types and their combined influence on the development of intercultural understanding. Journal of Research in International Education, 5(1), 5-33.

Kramsch, C. (2000). Language and culture. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.

Lustig, M. W., & Koester, K. (2006). Intercultural competence: Interpersonal communication across cultures (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.

Samovar, L. A., & Porter, R. E. (2001). International communication: A reader (10th ed.). Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.

Straffon, D. A. (2003). Assessing the intercultural sensitivity of high school students attending an international school. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 27(4), 487-501.

Valdes, J. (1986). Culture bound. Bridging the cultural gap in language teaching (pp.49-50). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.




DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/n

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c) 2017 Leilei LIU

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Share us to:   

 

Please send your manuscripts to hess@cscanada.net，or  hess@cscanada.org  for consideration. We look forward to receiving your work.


 


 Articles published in Higher Education of Social Science are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY).

HIGHER EDUCATION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE Editorial Office

Address: 1055 Rue Lucien-L'Allier, Unit #772, Montreal, QC H3G 3C4, Canada.
Telephone: 1-514-558 6138 
Website: Http://www.cscanada.net Http://www.cscanada.org 
E-mail: caooc@hotmail.com; office@cscanada.net

Copyright © 2010 Canadian Research & Development Center of Sciences and Cultures