Research Article
Sensation Seeking, Ethnocentrism and Intercultural Communication Competence: An Empirical Study Based on SPSS
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 4, December 2023
Pages:
81-87
Received:
20 October 2023
Accepted:
9 November 2023
Published:
17 November 2023
Abstract: The 21st century has seen an unprecedented increase in globalization, with various cultures and nations becoming more interconnected through trade, technology, and education. This global landscape has created a growing need for effective cross-cultural communication, as individuals and organizations engage with people from diverse backgrounds. China's global role has recently transformed, emerging as a major player in international trade, diplomacy, and education. With a surge in Chinese students studying abroad and the international expansion of Chinese businesses, it is imperative that Chinese college students possess both academic and cultural competence to navigate the intricacies of cross-cultural communication. Chinese college students, as part of this globalized world, must acquire the skills and attitudes necessary for successful interaction with people from different cultures. This study, taking Chinese college students as the research subjects, discusses the basic situation of sensation seeking and ethnocentrism of Chinese college students, as well as the relationship between the two and cross-cultural communication competence, in order to provide references for domestic cross-cultural communication investigation, and boost the domestic cross-cultural communication research. The findings are as follows: (1) contemporary college students are willing to accept different cultures, respect the habits of other cultures, and have strong feelings of tolerance; (2) sensation seeking was negatively correlated with ethnocentrism, but positively correlated with intercultural communication competence; (3) sensation-seeking and ethnocentrism have significant predictive ability on cross-cultural communication competence, and the predictive ability of ethnocentrism is higher than that of sensation-seeking.
Abstract: The 21st century has seen an unprecedented increase in globalization, with various cultures and nations becoming more interconnected through trade, technology, and education. This global landscape has created a growing need for effective cross-cultural communication, as individuals and organizations engage with people from diverse backgrounds. Chin...
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Research Article
ESP Teaching Model Based on Internationalized Talent Cultivation in Shanxi Higher Education Institutions
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 4, December 2023
Pages:
88-92
Received:
3 December 2023
Accepted:
18 December 2023
Published:
26 December 2023
Abstract: With the continuous advancement of China’s reform and opening-up, foreign language education in China has been developing rapidly. College English teaching, which traditionally focuses on the teaching of general English, can hardly meet the needs of the society and the development of students, and it is necessary to cultivate talents who know English and are able to carry out international exchanges in specialized fields or occupations. However, for a long time, there has been a view that college English teaching is general English teaching, and there is no need or necessity to teach English for ESP. There are many reasons for this viewpoint, the most important of which is that the long-term lack of theoretical research has kept the ESP teaching system in a state of confusion for many years, which is highlighted in the unclear characterization and positioning of ESP courses in the syllabus, the lack of ESP teachers, and the misuse of teaching materials. By adopting interdisciplinary research methods, questionnaires, interviews and action research methods, and after completing the needs analysis, we propose an outline based on existing linguistic theories and learning theories, using information from practice, then select teaching materials based on the outline, determine the pedagogical methods used to teach these materials and establish an assessment process that could be checked to achieve that particular goal, namely, to set clear ESP teaching objectives, employ rich ESP teaching methods, diversify ESP teachers’ training and develop reasonable ESP evaluation methods, aiming to provide theoretical support and methodological guidance for the overall enhancement of the quality of ESP teaching in higher education institutions in Shanxi province.
Abstract: With the continuous advancement of China’s reform and opening-up, foreign language education in China has been developing rapidly. College English teaching, which traditionally focuses on the teaching of general English, can hardly meet the needs of the society and the development of students, and it is necessary to cultivate talents who know Engli...
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