Developing language training as an effective channel of cross-cultural education: a contemporary methodological approach in Chinese training for international students

  • Song Shanshan Huzhou University, 759 Erhuandong Road, Huzhou 313000, Zhejiang Province, China

Abstract

By recounting the connection between language and culture, this paper examines the relationship between language learning and cross-cultural competence development, and highlights the critical role of culture input in language teaching. Then the article introduces the national policy requirements for the cultivation of cross-cultural competence of international students in the universities in China. This requirement directly affects the curriculum objectives of Chinese courses for international students in China’s modern universities. It requires that Chinese language education should not be limited to the cultivation of language skills, but also need to introduce relevant cultural elements, to cultivate the students’ cross-cultural competence. Then the article expounds on how Chinese teachers combine different Chinese cultural elements into different language courses to implement cross-cultural education.

Author Biography

Song Shanshan, Huzhou University, 759 Erhuandong Road, Huzhou 313000, Zhejiang Province, China

PhD (pedagogy); lecturer at the international school

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Published
2022-05-26
Keywords: cross-cultural education, modern university, international students, Chinese language training
Supporting Agencies This article represents part of the outcome of the projects «A study on the reform of the Chinese culture course for international postgraduate students in Huzhou» (project code is YJGX19006) and «Research on teaching Chinese as a foreign language from the perspective of the acquisition of a third language: taking Chinese teaching to Russian speakers as an example» (project code is 2019SKYY06).
Issue
No 1 (2022): University Pedagolgical Journal
Section
Foreign Experience