Cross-cultural and College English Teaching.doc

Cross-cultural and College English Teaching Abstract With the advance of globalization, do not ask countries and regions, different cultural backgrounds, communication between the increasingly close and frequent cross-cultural exchanges, human life has become an indispensable part of it. The ultimate goal of college English teaching is to achieve the target language and native language exchange. Thus, in English teaching, not only to teach the students knowledge of the language, but also to teach them a different language backgrounds and cultures, so that they understand the different cultural differences, and resolve contradictions and conflicts, to overcome the communication barriers, thereby cultivating a more Strong cross-cultural communicative competence. Keywords: cross-cultural communication and cultural differences in English language teaching As the globalization process forward, closer exchanges between countries in different regions and cultural backgrounds of cooperation between the exchanges is becoming increasingly common daily reality. Therefore, beyond the cultural limitations with the vision and awareness, with cross-cultural knowledge and skills, and learn from different cultural backgrounds communicate with others, is a contemporary young people should have the basic quality. That’s the teaching of English in universities raised new demands: not only to impart knowledge of the language, but also to develop students communication skills to enable them to cognitive linguistic and cultural differences, communication barriers to overcome to achieve the fusion of language and culture exchange . (A) Language and Culture Language is the carrier of culture, which is itself a form of culture. Therefore, English teaching can not simply imparting knowledge of the language, but also expand the horizons of students, so that they understand the social customs of English-speaking countries and English-speaking countries understand the historic