An Investigation of Cross-Cultural Teaching of the Non-English Majors in Hexi University

Journal: Region - Educational Research and Reviews DOI: 10.32629/rerr.v2i3.141

Jun Zhang

School of Foreign Language, China West Normal University

Abstract

As the establishment of the status of English as a universal language, a new requirement has been put forward in college English teaching in China, which is to cultivate high-quality talents with intercultural communicative competence. However, college English teaching in our country is in language knowledge-centered for a long-term, paying attention to the cultivation of students’ language competence, but ignoring cultural learning, which seriously affects the cultivation of students’ intercultural ability. In order to truly reflect the current situation of cross-cultural teaching in college English, and to find out specific problems and causes in cross-cultural teaching in college English, this paper takes Hexi University for an example and analyzes it. 

Keywords

cross-cultural teaching; Hexi University; non-English majors

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