The Cultivation Of Cross-Cultural Awareness In The English Teaching Of Secondary School

The English syllabus of middle school points out that one important goal of English teaching is to develop students'cross-cultural communication competence. But generally speaking, studies in this field are still on the beginning phase. Some teachers are still not sensitive about it. People hold different opinions on how to cultivate students'cross-cultural communication competence.Since language and culture are inseparable,one cannot master the spirit of a foreign language without knowing its culture. The ultimate goal of FLT is to make students have the intercultural communication competence of that language. But the cross-cultural communication competence is generally brushed aside in middle schools because of the traditional way of teaching which mainly focused students'grammar, instead of their cross-cultural communication competence.Based on the investigation and study, this paper comes to the conclusion that the cross-cultural communication competence is very important, without which students will find it hard to meet the social requirements and China's English teaching in middle schools must be reformed. At the end of the paper, several suggestions are made, for instance, reforming the entrance examination, infusing more culture into the teaching materials, training teachers more, improving the teaching conditions and facilitating the corporations between sections of education.