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The Analysis of Intercultural Communication Competence in ESP Teaching



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LIU Xue-qing

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2019.08.009

Jiangsu Police Institute, Nanjing, China

With the Belt and Road Initiative, the demand for Chinese college students to enhance their intercultural competence has been growing.Although the students’ English proficiency has improved a lot, a large quantitative of students still have difficulties in communicating with people from different countries. With the development of present college education, China’s college English teaching is undergoing a new phase of reformation because of various intrinsic or extrinsic factors.And most of the college students have been offered bilingual courses, EAP or ESP courses.More and more international activities have been held locally, and foreign exchanges and cooperation have become more frequent. From the perspective of the macroscopic social context, European countries have many common cultural origins, which are easy to express in the same or similar English; even if Asian countries and English-speaking countries have large cultural differences, the unique English expression is more common among different participants.By taking 120 undergraduates, graduates, and the post graduates as the sample, this paper is firstly trying to investigate the status quo through questionnaires and inquiries on the demand, the anticipation, expectation, and the relative strategies of intercultural communication skills nurturing in college English courses especially in ESP courses. The survey was conducted among students and graduates of our college, whose professional background and employment field are both the law enforcement and the policing, and most of them have volunteered in international activities or have the experience of international exchange. This paper is then through qualitative or quantitative analysis probing into the theoretical resources and practical nurturing practices of intercultural communication competence in ESP course from perspectives of objectives, activities, content, approaches of teaching, etc.And based on theories of communication, IC, ESP, teaching methods, etc., the thesis attempts to discuss the present problem or the insufficiency in IC teaching in ESP courses, and to provide several creative suggestions or strategies on how to change and improve the present situation.

intercultural communication, ESP, the Belt and Road, cultural awareness, teaching approach