On the Cultivation of Cross-culture Communication Competence of Second Language Learners

Abstract—The main significance of language lies in communication exchanges. English as a kind of language is a tool for people to communicate. At the same time, language is an important and prominent part of culture. The languages of different nations are not only restricted by the social cultures of their own but also reflect their specific cultural content. So to learn the language well, it is necessary to understand the culture. The level of our learning can not be judged just from the mastery of the vocabulary and grammar. English teaching should strengthen the cultural sense education, making clear the relationship among language, culture and teaching. The paper has proposed the necessary conditions to cultivate cross-cultural communication competence and the English teachers ’ roles based on the current status of English teaching. So it is easily to explore how to guide students to value the input of the second language acquisition and then enhance their basic knowledge of English language, nonverbal communication skills and cross-cultural communication competence. Index Terms—SLA, cultivation, cross-cultural communicative competence I