The Cultivation Of Cross-Cultural Awareness In English Teaching In The Globalizing Perspective

Globalization is a topic concerned widely by the academic and the society. On its reality, it reflects the deep development of the degree of the influence and reliance on each other of countries'politics, economy and culture. Many scholars believe that globalization is a unity of every country's social politics, economy and culture. However, in the process of globalization there is a key problem, that is, people are the main part and people's ideas decide the direction of globalization. People are culture in nature. On this way, culture is the key of globalization, so the thesis discusses cultural-globalization mainly.Cultural-globalization needs a lot of talents with cross-cultural abilities. Cross-cultural awareness is the basis of Cross-cultural ability. So how to cultivate people's cross-cultural awareness is the important problem in the world now.Education belongs to culture, so it has the characters of culture. The thesis just analyzes the influence on our country's education and teaching arised from globalization, connects the ideal of teaching and discusses the relation between English teaching and cross-cultural awareness and how to cultivate cross-cultural awareness in English teaching to adapt to the trend of globalization. The author hopes the thesis will make some suggestion to the teacher and do some help to the students and English teaching and scientific research. The thesis includes several parts: the first part involves comprehension about culture,globalization and educational globalization and their relationship. The second part concerns the influence on our country's education and teaching arised from globalization and analyzes the idea of teaching, English teaching and cultural teaching. The third part discusses how to cultivate cross-cultural awareness in English teaching to adapt to the trend of globalization.