汉英合作原则与礼貌原则的冲突

文化背景的差异导致汉语和英语交际中合作原则与礼貌原则的冲突,从而常常会造成一些语用误 解与交流障碍。跨文化交际需要跨文化的语言运用能力,外语教学更应重视学生实际语用能力的提高。     

大学英语跨文化交际能力培养

大学英语教学不仅是传授语言知识,还要培养学生应用英语进行跨文化交际的能力。本文从跨文化交际能力的构成要素出发,阐述了大学英语中跨文化交际能力培养的要求及方法。     

大学英语教学中的文化导入实践--以《新编大学英语》为例

在跨文化交流日趋频繁的今天,跨国经贸、跨国教育、跨国交流等与英语密切相关的涉外交往推动着大学英语教学走出传统的、单纯传授语言知识的教学模式,进入以文化理解和交流为基础的既注重语言准确性又注重语言交际性和实用性的新的发展阶段.本文以《新编大学英语》为例,阐述了语言教学与文化学习的关系、语言学习中文化导入的必要性及策略,通过词汇、习语和语篇三方面,介绍了大学英语教学过程中,文化导入的实践.     

商务英语专业学生文化语用迁移现象探究 ——以拒绝言语行为为例

The Cultivation Objective of Business English is to enable students to have better intercultural communication competence and practical abilities in business English. Therefore, the intercultutal communcation competence is one of the inevitable targets for cultivating Business English majors . After analyzing the refusal strategies adopted by the 67 targets in this research, the author finds that in the four social situations their refusal strategies were more or less influenced by Chinese Culture so as to cause the pragmatic failure. Such phenomenon is called socio-pragmatic transfer. Therefore, this paper tends to discuss the reasons for such transfer and give some suggestions for English teaching.     

Education in multicultural environment – teaching/learning support activities (on the example of Georgia)

The National Curricula of Georgia emphasises the importance of intercultural education only in a declarative way. This article investigates how specific activities can contribute to the development of intercultural competences in a diverse environment. We conclude that additional training resources are critical for the development of those competencies among students. Application of our proposed model can serve to improve the intercultural schooling and adaptation of students in diverse environments.     

Teaching for transformation: converting the intercultural experience of preservice teachers into intercultural learning

Fostering intercultural learning among preservice teachers has become increasingly important. This article describes the results of a three-year study of semester-long projects in which cohorts of undergraduate education majors (N = 41) engaged with first-semester international students and were asked to reflect on becoming involved participants in a linguistically and culturally diverse learning community. The findings reveal the transformative effect of intercultural encounters on future teachers.     

Intercultural literacy dialogue: international assessment moderation in early childhood teacher education

ABSTRACT

This research reports intercultural dialogue of meaning making in literacy by lecturers, engaged with an assessment moderation process of early childhood education (ECE) preservice teacher education across Australia, New Zealand and Sweden. The purpose of the dialogue was to inform pedagogical and conceptual knowledge in their courses. The research question is: How does intercultural dialogue inform teacher education literacy practices? Methods include (1) a blind assessment review process using 30 examples from ‘high’ to ‘low’ exemplars of ECE students’ literacy assessment annotations, some from each country, and (2) textual analysis of intercultural student feedback and reflection from student forum comments and, semi-structured reflexive interviews with students about the assessment moderation process. Rich academic reflections on the data have led to our recommendations that the conceptual framework of intercultural praxis could be applied in early childhood preservice teacher education practice. Further, we suggest there are increased possibilities for the use of intercultural literacy with ECE preservice student teachers using virtual and explicit collaborations and texts as explained in this research.     

‘Inching’ towards interculturalism: ambiguities and tensions in teachers’ ideologies and practices in the context of Cyprus

ABSTRACT

This research examines teachers’ conceptualisations of diversity and intercultural education. It also investigates the teaching approaches adopted by teachers within their culturally diverse classrooms. More specifically, the current project investigates the following research questions: how do teachers define and understand the concept of intercultural education; what practices do they adopt (or not) to promote intercultural education in their classrooms; what barriers do they perceive in their efforts to teach in more intercultural ways; what are their suggestions for implementing intercultural education in more successful ways? Observations and interviews took place with twenty teachers from ten schools in Cyprus. Our data shows that two ideological positions co-existed in teachers’ discourses, namely: the monocultural approach (cultural-deficiency perspective), and the multicultural approach (cultural-celebratory perspective). We also examined how the ambiguities and contradictions in teachers’ ideologies influenced their teaching and practices. In their daily routines, teachers seemed to adopt a teaching-as-usual approach, while occasionally engaging in ‘intercultural moments’, which included their rare attempts to differentiate or add cultural content to their teaching.     

Bursting With Laughter

Celio Ferreira. Palauan cosmology: dominance in a traditional Micronesian society (Gothenburg Studies in Social Anthropology 11). Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. 1987. vi, 300 pp., figures, plates, glossary, references. SEK 200 (paper) ISBN 91 7346 183 0 ISSN 0348 4076.

Richard J. Parmentier. The sacred remains: myth, history and polity in Belau. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1987. xxiii, 309pp., figures, maps, photographs, tables, glossary, place names, references, index. ISBN 0 226 64695 5 (hardcover) ISBN 0 226 64696 3 (paper).