How to Cultivate Primary School Students' Intercultural Communication Ability

With the rapid development of science and technology and China's accession to the WTO, international communication is increasing day by day, and English, the language with the widest coverage in the world, shows its unparalleled importance. At the same time, the new English curriculum standards put forward higher and newer requirements for English teaching. Cultural awareness is one of the new concepts, which aims to let students get in touch with and understand the culture of English-speaking countries. European and American countries, as well as most English-speaking countries, are quite different from China in cultural background, customs and habits. When people from these countries have real conversations in English, they often cause a lot of troubles and jokes. Therefore, English teachers in primary schools should pay attention to helping students get rid of cultural barriers, infiltrate cultural awareness and cultivate their intercultural communication ability. In daily teaching, I do this: 1. Take classroom teaching as an important channel to infiltrate English cultural awareness. At present, classroom teaching is still the main way of teaching activities, and students and teachers spend the longest time in the classroom. Classroom teaching should be said to be the main position to cultivate students' cultural awareness, which can penetrate into all aspects of teaching. Teachers make full use of class time to let students know more about English-speaking countries, which is not only conducive to students' awareness of English culture, but also to students' correct handling of the relationship between English and their mother tongue. 1. Infiltrating cultural awareness through vocabulary learning English vocabulary has accumulated rich cultural significance in long-term use. Therefore, in teaching, teachers should take vocabulary as the starting point, infiltrate cultural awareness and pay attention to the introduction of cultural meanings of English vocabulary. When teaching dogs, tell students that dogs are mostly derogatory in China culture, such as lost dogs and running dogs, but in the eyes of British and Americans, dogs are the most loyal friends of mankind, including common words such as love me, love my dog and a lucky dog. On the contrary, the dragon is an animal revered by our people for thousands of years, a symbol of good fortune and wisdom, but in the west it is a symbol of evil and a harbinger of misfortune and bad luck. For another example, when teaching color-related words such as green and brown, I always spread some color-related English idioms to students, such as a green hand and fell in a brown study, so as to avoid students from making big mistakes by reading the meaning of the text. Correctly understanding and using English vocabulary is helpful to cultivate students' habit of thinking in English. Only by understanding the thinking habits and ways of British and American people can we avoid the bad habits of thinking communication in China. 2. Infiltrate cultural awareness through cultural comparison When organizing classroom teaching, teachers should not only excavate the cultural content of teaching materials and convey it to students, but also introduce British and American cultures appropriately. Cultural introduction is inseparable from the comparative analysis of Chinese and foreign cultures, and learning and using English in comparison will often get twice the result with half the effort. How good it is to teach! Sometimes I will explain to students: in English-speaking countries, how nice it is to be used by others! When praising your things, you should gladly answer "thank you" instead of following the virtues of the Chinese nation and modestly saying "this is not good". For example, how old are you after school? At that time, I told my students that it is normal to ask about age in China, but when a woman is asked about her age abroad, she will say: It's a secret. Because westerners think that age and income are personal privacy, it is obviously impolite to ask at will. These cultural differences between the East and the West are also cultural factors that affect communication in a specific context. By comparing the two cultures and understanding the cultural taboos in English-speaking countries, we will not fall into the embarrassing situation of inappropriate words. It is not difficult to teach students to speak, but it is not easy to teach students to speak appropriately. The key to speaking well is to help students increase their cultural background and enhance their awareness of cross-cultural communication. Second, take extracurricular as an important way to infiltrate cultural consciousness. Extracurricular is a vast and colorful world, which is more attractive than classroom. If the extracurricular atmosphere is full of English breath, it can subtly infect and edify students. There is an old saying in China: Environment makes talents. We can make full use of extra-curricular time and space to create a good learning environment conducive to students' English learning and cultural awareness, so that students can freely feel the cultural awareness of English-speaking countries. 1. Infiltrating cultural awareness through the learning garden Pupils are always interested in illustrated English content. According to this feature, teachers can compete for a place in the English learning garden on the school bulletin board and blackboard newspaper. Make full use of these spaces to promote English culture, and strive to make every wall speak English once a month or once a week. The contents of the park can be idioms and famous sayings that are beneficial to students' memory, as well as English poems and nursery rhymes. Teachers can also write some games that foreign children often play, such as crossword puzzles and riddles, according to the English level of the students in the class. These lively and interesting contents can attract students to take the initiative to participate, let them feel the way of thinking of foreigners, and cultivate their reading ability and English language sense. 2. Infiltrating cultural awareness through English broadcasting is also an important tool to create an English atmosphere. Teachers can use the radio to introduce students to the entertainment and sports activities in English-speaking countries, such as NBA professional basketball in the United States and Wimbledon in the United Kingdom. These events are world-famous. Students learn about these events from radio, television and other media. They are familiar with these sports, and some of them still love them. Teachers can collect information about these competitions with small broadcasters and introduce them through the radio. Disney is an animated film company with an international reputation. Many cartoons it produces are deeply loved by the majority of primary and secondary school students. We can also use them as broadcast content. When playing the content, in order to adjust students' mood, some famous children's songs in Europe and America, such as Jingle Bell, can be interspersed, which are effective ways for students to better understand western culture. Three. Take activity teaching as an important means to infiltrate cultural awareness. Educator Suhomlinski pointed out that when knowledge and active activities are closely linked, learning can become a part of students' spiritual life. In English teaching, teachers should not only try their best to provide students with opportunities for language practice such as listening, speaking, reading and writing, but also try their best to provide students with various activities closely related to daily life, so that students can apply what they have learned in the activities and increase their knowledge, so as to integrate themselves into the corresponding cultural atmosphere and enhance their sensitivity and ability to distinguish cultural differences. 1. Infiltrating cultural awareness through theme activities is children's favorite day, and both eastern and western countries have their own festivals. Teachers can hold exchange activities with the theme of festival culture in due course. Such as New Year's party, birthday party, Christmas party, etc. Let students experience western culture in real theme activities. At the New Year's party, I asked my classmates to sing HappyNew Year together, supplemented by certain dance movements, and everyone gave each other homemade New Year cards and wished each other New Year wishes. In the activity of Christmas Eve, let a student play the role of Santa Claus, which is loved by western children, and let the students listen to the song Silent Night to experience the peace and harmony of Christmas, and then make wishes and give gifts to feel the affection and friendship. On the occasion of Thanksgiving, we will lead students to have a picnic in the suburbs and guide them to make western food such as pumpkin pie to thank the earth for its gifts. Through this series of activities, students experience not only happiness, but also the perception of western culture and the understanding of local customs. 2. Infiltrating cultural awareness through social practice People's communication activities are carried out in a certain social environment, and the use and development of language cannot be separated from the social and cultural environment. In addition to learning culture in the classroom and campus, society is undoubtedly a big classroom for students, and there are richer and more comprehensive English cultural information waiting for students to discover and excavate. Therefore, teachers can lead students to explore and try all available social resources for various practical activities, for example, educating students to get in touch with British and American people at zero distance through the internet, so as to communicate directly. For another example, with the further expansion of China's reform and opening up, a large number of foreigners come to China, and we can look for opportunities for students to communicate with them face to face in English. For another example, in combination with various major events held in China, such as the World Expo and the Olympic Games, we will carry out activities such as small volunteers and small tour guides to enrich and expand our practical ability. With the communication between students and foreigners whose mother tongue is English, their knowledge of western culture has been improved unconsciously. The task of foreign language teaching is not only to cultivate students' language ability, but also to cultivate students' communicative ability, which requires students to master and understand the social and cultural factors closely related to language use. Teachers should consciously infiltrate western cultural awareness into all aspects of English teaching, help students eliminate cultural barriers in communication, continuously improve students' social and cultural knowledge, and make them invincible in cross-cultural communication.