Study on Cross-cultural Communication Competence Construction in English Teaching

Abstract: As economic globalization continuously popularizes and era develops, English has become the language which is most widely applied in the world. This puts forward new requirements for English teaching. Today when Chinese and foreign exchanges become increasingly close, cultivation of cross-cultural communication competence receives more and more attention. This has become the primary mission of English teaching and has been deeply pondered over by English teachers. The author firstly combines the work experience to summarize cross-cultural communication competence. Then, the author analyzes the importance of constructing cross-cultural communication competence in English teaching and mainly discusses the ways to construct cross-cultural communication competence in English teaching, in the hope of proving certain reference for English teaching. Key words: English teaching; cross-culture; communication competence; construction Since China joined WTO, English status in teaching activities has promoted significantly. Besides, higher requirements have been proposed for English teaching. Apart from imparting language knowledge, it is also required to cultivate students ’ ability to perceive and understand culture as well as construct cross-cultural communication competence. Students should expand their horizon, know very well foreign culture and enhance their cross-cultural communication competence while mastering language application ability in current stage, cross-cultural communication competence occupies an important position in English teaching. In order to construct cross-cultural communication competence in English teaching, we should comprehensively cognize cross-cultural communication competence. I. Overview of cross-cultural communication competence (I) Connotation of cross-cultural communication competence Chinese and foreign scholars give different definitions for cross-cultural communicatio