On a College English Listening and Speaking Textbook from the Perspective of Intercultural Communication

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10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_32How to use a DOI?

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Intercultural communicative competence; College English textbook; Text analysis; Culture

Abstract

Intercultural communicative competence enables people from various cultural background to communicate in English as foreign language effectively. Therefore, intercultural communicative competence should be integrated in college English teaching. College English textbooks should put more emphasis on cultivating intercultural communicative competence. Therefore, it is significant to study the cultural content of college English textbooks, in order to analyze to what extent and in what way college English textbooks promote intercultural communicative competence, and to offer suggestions for college English teachers and textbook writers to improve the content of the textbooks. In this study, a college English listening and speaking textbook published by an influential foreign language teaching and research press will be analyzed. The purpose is to find out whether the textbook contains valuable elements of native culture, target culture and world culture, whether the proportion of these different cultural elements is appropriate, and whether the activities in the listening and speaking textbook are effective to improve students’ knowledge, skills, attitude and behavior in intercultural communicative competence. Item frequency analysis and Byram’s 8 criteria will be involved in the analysis. The author will examine the general trends of the textbook and study whether the frequently-used teaching elements are aimed at developing both linguistic competence and intercultural communicative competence. The results reveal the inclusion of cultural elements in the textbook. The results of this study provide feedback to improve the quality of the textbook related to the aspects of intercultural communicative competence.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Libin Duan
AU  - Guoxuan Pan
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/05/18
TI  - On a College English Listening and Speaking Textbook from the Perspective of Intercultural Communication
BT  - Proceedings of the 20th AsiaTEFL-68th TEFLIN-5th iNELTAL Conference (ASIATEFL 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 366
EP  - 376
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_32
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_32
ID  - Duan2023
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