Abstract

The fundamental purpose of foreign language teaching is to achieve intercultural communication, that is, to communicate with people of different cultural backgrounds. With the advent of the era of globalization, cross-cultural communication is more and more frequent. How to cultivate students’ intercultural communicative competence in oral English teaching in junior high school has become an urgent problem to solve in foreign language teaching. This paper emphasizes the necessity of cultivating intercultural communicative competence in junior middle school oral English teaching, and analyzes the factors that affect the cultivation of intercultural communicative competence from the perspective of students and teachers. At last, the author provides some useful teaching ideas and methods for English teachers.

Keywords: intercultural communicative competence; oral English teaching; factors; methods

Contents

Abstract

摘要

1. Introduction-1

2. Literature Review-1

3. The Significance of Cultivating ICC-2

3.1 The definition of ICC-3

3.2 The present situation of oral English teaching in junior high school-3

3.3 The necessity of cultivating ICC-4

4. Main Factors for Affecting the Cultivation of Students’ ICC-6

4.1 From the perspective of students-6

4.2 From the perspective of teachers-8

5. Methods of Cultivating ICC in Oral English Teaching-10

5.1 Improving the overall quality of English teachers-10

5.2 Changing students’ thought patterns-11

5.3 Using teaching materials to teaching western cultural knowledge-12

5.4 Creating an ideal language environment-12

5.5 Using network resources to expand intercultural knowledge-13

5. Conclusion-13

Works Cited-14