Intercultural Communication And English Teaching

Content: In the modern world-country, the communication between different peoples, different nationalities gets more and more frequently, Intercultural communication becomes the characteristic of the modern society. Following the high development of modern technology, various kinds of culture comes in a kind of unprecedented circulation way. Under this kind of environment, using a common language to absorb and spread culture becomes inevitable. As common choice, English is regarded as the world language, and its importance is more and more prominent. With the rapid development and popularization of multimedia computer and network, English reading and writing, translating and communicating, and studying and teaching is going through a historical innovation. This change will make the educational pattern move towards information age since the era of printing, create a series of new pattern teaching forms, open up a whole new intercultural education network. So, it requires the teachers to change the traditional teaching way, combined language teaching and culture teaching together, instruct English teaching with modern communication theory, fully utilize network, to train students the ability of language in terms of intercultural communication by means of modernized teaching. English teaching will change from traditional language knowledge teaching expanding to intercultural communication. The teaching purpose turns into training students' intercultural communication ability, meeting the needs of intercultural communication. Just because communication can't break away from the culture background in exchanging, foreign language teaching will involve culture and cultural comparison with others unavoidably. So, as to foreign language learner, learning languages equals to study culture. The process of learning foreign language is also the process of understanding and grasping target's national culture background knowledge. The degree of target's national culture background knowledge is the prerequisite of using die language properly; also directly influence the ability of using foreign language. Based on the new situation of intercultural communication, this essaypoints out the questions existing in English teaching and practising from the point of intercultural communication, probes into the change of English under the environment of the network, proves the importance of student's intercultural communication skills, discuses the relation between English teaching and intercultural communication, points out the key to improve the efficiency and quality of English teaching lies in keeping abreast of the new situation closely, holding the characteristic of the culture communication way in network information society, using the modernized teaching means in improving foreign language application ability ,so to intercultural communicate correctly.