从希腊神话谈跨文化交际教学

文章首先提出现行的大学英语教学中普遍存在着忽视跨文化教学这一问题,然后结合希腊神话典故谈如何在大学英语教学中利用希腊神话进行跨文化交际教学,以此来培养学生对英美文化的敏感性和洞察力,在培养英语语感的同时,提高英美文化感。     

基于泉州海丝申遗的跨文化语言服务人才培养模式研究——以泉州师范学院为例

“一带一路”,语言铺路,语言是构建成功交流的重要桥梁。泉州目前正努力地以古泉州(刺桐)史迹申请世界文化遗产,为了让世界了解泉州,让泉州走向世界,就需要一批既懂语言基本技能的语言人才又懂泉州灿烂历史文化的文化人才。基于泉州海丝申遗,着力改变大学语言人才的培养模式,探索新形势下多方互动的联合培养模式,共同培养具有跨文化语言应用能力的服务人才,为海丝申遗和“一带一路”建设发挥积极的作用。     

Mindset change in a cross-cultural context

Imagine you are Thai and a member of a management team from a European company that acts in an Asian emerging market. Imagine you are a European expat with the assignment to double the turnover from that Asian company in a few years. Imagine you are a Change Maker and they ask you to facilitate the (multinational) management team of that Asian company to develop a market strategy and translate it into a business plan, and you have to deal with cultural differences. How do you manage a small-scale change process based on the principles of action learning in that specific multinational context? That's the essence of this account of practice.     

探析英语专业视听说教学中文化导入的重要性

语言从深层次反映一个民族的文化特点,要学好一个民族的语言,必须学习该民族的文化。因此,在英语视听说教学中,教师既要重视语言知识的传授,又要注重文化知识的传授。从语言与文化的关系、英语视听说教学导入文化的重要性等方面作一探析,同时给出了一些提高学生跨文化意识的对策。     

英汉对比下的大学英语翻译教学探索

翻译是一种技术层面的实践,是一种语言层面的转换,更是一种跨文化交际现象。英汉对比是翻译的前提,也是搞好翻译教学不可缺少的理论基础,可以说,自觉或不自觉地进行英汉对比,特别是跨文化比较整个贯穿于英汉翻译的教学过程中,而有意识地把英汉对比,特别是文化意识寓于翻译教学之中,则是当前搞好翻译教学的有效途径,特别是在大学英语教学改革中起着极其重要的作用。     

Capturing teacher priorities: Using real-world eye-tracking to investigate expert teacher priorities across two cultures

Classroom teaching is complex. In the classroom, teachers must readily attend to disruptions and successfully convey new tasks and information. Outside the classroom, teachers must organise their priorities that are important for successful student learning. In fact, differing gaze patterns can reveal the varying priorities that teachers have. Teacher priorities are likely to vary with classroom expertise and can conceivably change with culture too. Therefore, the present study investigated expertise related and cultural teacher priorities by analysing their gaze proportions. To obtain this data, 40 secondary school teachers wore eye-tracking glasses during class time, with 20 teachers (10 expert; 10 novice) from the UK and 20 teachers (10 expert; 10 novice) from Hong Kong. We analysed gaze proportions during teachers' attentional (i.e., information-seeking, e.g., teacher questioning students) and communicative (i.e., information-giving, e.g., teacher lecturing students) gaze. Regardless of culture, expert teachers' gaze proportions revealed prioritisation of students, whereas novice teachers gave priority to non-instructional (i.e., not students, teacher materials, or student materials) classroom regions. Hong Kong teachers prioritised teacher materials (e.g., whiteboard) during communicative gaze whereas UK teachers prioritised non-instructional regions. Regarding culture-specific expertise, with Hong Kong experts prioritised teacher materials more than UK experts who, in turn, did so more than UK novices. We thus demonstrate the role of implicit teacher gaze measures as micro-level indicators of macro-level and explicit aspects of instruction, namely teacher priority.     

Does cross-cultural training in tertiary education enhance cross-cultural adjustment? A systematic review

The increasing cultural diversity within tertiary education and workplace environments requires students and graduates to be knowledgeable and effective in cross-cultural adjustment and managing potential acculturative stress. One of the ways to increase their cross-cultural adjustment is via cross-cultural training (CCT). Given the predominantly business-oriented nature of previous reviews, this paper systematically examined whether CCT was effective when applied to tertiary students. The analysis of different types of CCT and its outcomes was guided by Ward, Bochner, and Furnham’s (2001) ABC (Affective, Behavioural, and Cognitive) model that comprehensively explained the affective, behavioural, and cognitive facets of cross-cultural adjustment. We reviewed 35 CCT studies published post-1990 with control group design or pre-post training evaluation. CCT in tertiary education has become increasingly multi-method and experiential. CCT programs with behavioural components had the most consistent evidence of effectiveness. Programs with both behavioural and cognitive components were more effective than cognitive- and didactic-alone programs. CCT appeared to be particularly effective in enhancing tertiary students’ academic and career performance. Practical implication and suggestions for future research directions are discussed.     

A cross-cultural investigation of teachers’ and reporting officers’ self-ratings on teaching and leadership skills across Singapore and Bahrain

Self-rating bias is particularly likely in organizational behavior research as individuals tend to inflate their expertise, skills and character. This study aims to examine how two culturally diverse groups of teachers and their reporting officers respond to self-ratings of their own teaching skills and leadership skills respectively. It is posited that such response may be culturally based. To ensure validity of comparisons, analyses were done using linear Rasch measures in logits rather than the non-linear raw scores. No significant differences were found between the perceptions of Singaporean teachers and their reporting officers on teaching and leadership skills. The Bahraini data however revealed teachers’ perceptions of own teaching skills were significantly higher than that of their reporting officers. The opposite is true for the Reporting officers’ perceptions of our leadership skills. Bahraini teachers’ perceptions of their own teaching skills were also found to be significantly higher than that of their Singaporean counterparts. The findings support the notion that individuals’ thinking and behavior is influenced by how they process social and cultural information.