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1、OnCultivatingInterculturalCommunicativeCompetenceinEnglishTeachingI.IntroductionTheworldweliveinisshrinkingandcontactclosely.Travelthatoncetookmonthsnowtakeshours.Thereisnodenyingthatthevariousculturesoftheworldarefarmoreaccessiblethaneverbefore,andthatthepeoples
2、oftheseculturesarecomingintocontactatanever-increasingrate.Inthe21stcentury,China'smodernizationsarecloselyboundupwithinterculturalcommunication.AftertheannouncementofBeijingbeingthehostcityofthe2008OlympicGames,inChina,wehavesetoffanewupsurgeoflearningEnglish.Ar
3、oundthewholecountry,nomattertheoldortheyoung,theyareallpreparingforthecominginternationalevent.SocultivatinginterculturalcommunicativecompetenceinEnglishisthewholeworldneed.Infact,manyforeignscholarsandChinesescholarshavedonealotofstudiesconcerninghowtodevelopthe
4、students'cross-culturalcompetence,becauseEnglishlanguageteachingandthetextbooksinChinapaidmoreattentiontolanguageformsthantotheirsocialmeanings,totheirpracticalapplicationsandtheculturaldifferences,manykindsofcommunicativeerrorsweremade.Soitisurgenttocultivatestu
5、dents’interculturalcommunicativecompetenceinEnglishteaching.II.ReviewsofLanguage-cultureStudiesA.LanguageandCultureLanguageispartofcultureandplaysaveryimportantroleinit.Somesocialscientistsconsideritthekeystoneofculture.Withoutlanguagetheymaintainculturewouldnotb
6、epossible.Ontheotherhand,languageisinfluencedandshapedbyculture,itreflectsculture.Inthebroadestsense,languageisthesymbolicrepresentationofapeople,anditcomprisestheirhistoricalandculturalbackgroundsaswellastheirapproachtolifeandtheirwaysoflivingandthinking.Then,wh
7、atislanguage?Whatisculture?Whatistherelationshipbetweenthem?Languageandculturelinkedclosely,sothatlearninglanguagemeanslearningculture.Forexample,achildgrowingupinoneoftheEnglish-speakingcultureslearnstosay“CanIhaveadrink?”ratherthan“Givemeadrink”,helearnstoaddre
8、sshisbrothersandsistersbytheirnamesregardlessofwhethertheyareolderoryoungerthanhimself,helearnstosay“thankyou”whenacceptingsomething.Inotherwords,inlearninghow
