On the Content of Intercultural Communication Teaching

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Abstract. The realities in intercultural communication teaching are that students still have no motivation and courage to communicate with the one with different cultural background and that the strangeness and distance between different cultural communicators are still unconquerable. With the development of world's economy and society and the convenience of various kinds of transportation, the world has become a real-life "world village", which generates new challenges for teachers to conduct the intercultural communication teaching in various kinds of ways, mostly in the contents. Intercultural communication courses aiming at improving students' cross-cultural communicative competence should be instructive, pragmatic and applicable, on the basis of which the author tempts to analyze what should be taught in intercultural communication teaching from the perspective of the teachers' role and the students' need.With the development of world's economy and society and the convenience of various kinds of transportation, the world has become a real-life "world village" rather than the one only appearing in books or minds, in response to which, intercultural communication teaching and the relevant courses are of great significance for students to learn and understand the similarities and differences among different cultures; and are helpful for students to play their part in the innovation and advancement of the society at an international level. Based on the teaching experiences of the past years in intercultural communication courses, the author finds many of the content in the referred course books are not attractive to students, which lead to students' disinterest in the study of intercultural communication, not to mention the research and command of them. Although some devoted and diligent learners have a splendid command of the knowledge of cross-cultural communication, they find it very hard to take the knowledge into practice and still feel strong sense of disappointment and depression because of the barriers and obstacles in cultural exchanges. The realities for the students are that they still have no motivation and courage to communicate with the one with different cultural backgrounds and that the strangeness and distance between different cultural communicators are still unconquerable. Intercultural communication courses aiming at improving students' cross-cultural communicative competence should be instructive, pragmatic and applicable, on the basis of which the author tempts to analyze what should be taught in intercultural communication teaching from the perspective of the teachers' role and the students' need. Teachers' roleAs an instructor of the course, the teacher himself or herself is supposed to be an intercultural communicator with specialized knowledge and skills, including fluent usage of world language or target language, understanding the basic concept and theory of intercultural communication, cherishing a global mentality and clarifying their specific cultural identity and cultural adaptat...