College English Teaching in the Intercultural Education Strategy.doc

College English Teaching in the Intercultural Education Strategy Abstract At present, most of the higher vocational students in other country’s social history, cultural background knowledge and understanding are inadequate, and lack of exotic culture and sensitivity, thus affecting the effectiveness of English teaching. Thus, in higher vocational English teaching, to strengthen intercultural education strategy. Keywords: cross-cultural education in College English Teaching Cross-cultural communication has become the prominent feature of the times. In the language and culture teaching, the so-called cross-cultural education is defined as between two different cultures of the kind of education that students are exposed to understand a foreign culture, foreign cultures and the similarities and differences between Chinese and Western cultures have a rough understanding, and gradually expand the scope of their access to foreign culture and help them to broaden their vision, thereby enhancing the sensitivity of the similarities and differences between Chinese and Western cultures and identification capabilities, and to improve cross-cultural communicative competence. However, most students in Vocational other country’s social history, cultural background knowledge, the lack of understanding, lack of exotic culture and sensitivity, thus affecting the effectiveness of English teaching. Language is the carrier of culture, our society’s unique culture are deeply embedded in language, and constrain language acts. Thus, in College English teaching, we should strengthen the intercultural education strategy. (A) improve teachers their own cross-cultural communicative competence In the Vocational English teaching, teachers play the role of education in cross-cultural communication is indispensable, there is one scholar has used chemical equation figuratively, linguistically and culturally compatible teaching relationship: language and culture teachers (catalyst ) = lang