Author(s)

Qinglan Meng ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Sichuan Vocational and Technical College, Suining, Sichuan, China

Corresponding Author

Qinglan Meng

ABSTRACT

The communication between people with different cultural backgrounds around the world is becoming more and more frequent. Cultural conflict has become the main topic of cultural exchange today. Under this background, the goal of Chinese English education curriculum reform has changed to develop students' cultural awareness and intercultural communication ability. The purpose of this thesis is to study the cultural content evaluation of college English textbooks from the perspective of intercultural communication. This paper analyzes the main achievements of the research on the evaluation and cultural content of English teaching materials at home and abroad, defines the main concepts of teaching materials and intercultural communication, and introduces the theoretical basis of this paper. Taking college English textbooks as the research object, this paper studies and evaluates the content of cultural knowledge. The results show that the textbook plays a particularly important role in promoting cultural exchange, helping to enhance cultural knowledge and cross-cultural communication skills.

KEYWORDS

Intercultural Communication, College English, Teaching Material Culture, Content Evaluation

CITE THIS PAPER

Qinglan Meng, Evaluation of the Cultural Content of College English Textbooks from the Perspective of Intercultural Communication. Curriculum and Teaching Methodology (2023) Vol. 6: 70-76. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/curtm.2023.060512.

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