ABSTRACT
Since last century, because of reforming and opening policy, many people, especially young people go abroad to get a better job or get further education and so on. Besides, many foreigners are curious about our country. Consequently, people come to realize that if we know little about cross-cultural communication, there will be many conflicts. Some experts suggest that today’s English teaching should emphasize intercultural communication. Learners ought to know not only grammar or words, but should learn cultural knowledge. If not, they will meet many difficulties while they communicate with foreigners. Therefore, it is important to introduce this kind of knowledge while teaching. We can’t neglect the importance of culture teaching in middle school foreign language teaching, English teachers should integrate culture into ELF teaching gradually and appropriately. Thus the students may have a better understanding of the target language.
Keywords：Cross-cultural communication; Cultural teaching; middle school ELF oral teaching ； intercultural communicative competence
Contents
ABSTRACT 1
1.Introduction 3
2. A survey based on classroom observations 4
2.1 The analysis of interviews 4
2.2 The analysis of a questionnaire 5
3.The necessity of develop cross-cultural communication competence 6
3.1The request of the development of Internationalization 6
3.2It is imperative to understand the cultural background knowledge 6
3.3 Cultural knowledge teaching is the objective of language teaching 7
4.Communicative competence in Middle school oral English teaching 8
4.1 Some strategies to learners 8
4.2 Some strategies to teachers 8
Conclusion 10
References 11
