An Intercultural Approach To The Teaching Of New Horizon College English

The ultimate goal of English teaching is to cultivate students’ interculturalcommunicative competence (ICC for short hereafter) with English language. ThusEnglish teaching should not only emphasize the training of students’ basic linguisticskills but also put these skills into the context of its culture so that the students canacquire ICC.Recently how to enhance students’ cultural awareness in order to develop theirICC has formed the basic systems concerned with the study of interculturalcommunication. However, how to apply the new teaching method---interculturalapproach to improve their ICC is still a field which is worth further studies.The research questions of this thesis are1) what is an Intercultural Approach?2)How can the intercultural Approach be applied to the teaching of New HorizonCollege English?3) Can the students’ intercultural competence be enhanced throughthe implementation of the intercultural approach in New Horizon College English?The thesis conducted an experiment in a period of15-week on the basis of somerelevant theories mentioned by John Corbett in his An intercultural approach toEnglish language teaching. A pre-test was conducted between the experimental classand the control class to ensure they are of an equal English level. With theintervention of intercultural approach used in experimental class, students achieved ahigher score than that of the control group.The results of this experiment indicate that diversified methods may be used incollege English teaching to cultivate student’s ICC; teachers should have a strong ICCso that they can implement this approach in their routine teaching.