Study on the Balance of Ethnocentrism and Western Cultural Hegemony in College Intercultural Instruction

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10.2991/assehr.k.201127.054How to use a DOI?

Keywords

ethnocentrism, cultural hegemony, intercultural instruction

Abstract

This paper provides an academic analysis on college intercultural instruction. The analysis reveals that Ethnocentrism and Western culture hegemony are two negative attitudes intercultural teachers and learners commonly hold in the process of intercultural teaching and learning, which would inevitably hinder the development of language learners’ intercultural communication competence. And a “third space” is offered as an effective way to deal with the problem which breaks down the traditional dichotomy of native and target cultures, helping language learners overcome ethnocentrism and Western culture hegemony, enabling them to broaden their international vision and develop intercultural communication competence.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiaojing Chen
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/28
TI  - Study on the Balance of Ethnocentrism and Western Cultural Hegemony in College Intercultural Instruction
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Education, Language and Inter-cultural Communication (ELIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 273
EP  - 276
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201127.054
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201127.054
ID  - Chen2020
ER  -