The Influence of Short-term Overseas Exchange on College English Teachers' Multicultural Sensitivity

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10.2991/ieesasm-17.2018.51How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Overseas Exchange; English Teacher; Multicultural Sensitivity; English Teaching

Abstract

To cultivate the multicultural sensitivity is an important goal of college English curricular reform, and is also the inevitable requirement of quality education. Language and culture are closely tied, so are language teaching and the teaching of culture. Nowadays, with the development of globalization, different cultures of different countries conflict with each other much more, so English learning becomes more important than anytime before. At the same time, the relations of the countries in the world are becoming increasingly closer, and cultural conflicts increasingly fiercer; different races, different languages, and different cultures provide different scope of studying to learners, which inject new blood into English learning and also integrate language and culture much more. Under this background, it is necessary to combine language with culture in college English teaching, and to improve the personal comprehensive ability of English teachers. As an efficient way to experience the culture of other countries, short-term overseas exchange has become an important way for many college English teachers to improve their own abilities. Starting from the connotation of multicultural sensitivity, the writer of this thesis tries to discuss the influence of short-term overseas exchange on college English teachers.

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