Survey Of International Understanding Competence Of High School Students Under Intercultural Communication Context And Training Strategies

With the rapid development and prevalence of globalization recently,different cultures are having unprecedentedly frequent inter-communications and collisions,simultaneously;they tend to pay more attention to the similarities and differences between each other.Exactly under this background,cross-culture communicating activities turn to be a basic "activity cell".Education for International Understanding is regarded as an effective approach of cultivating the awareness and ability of cross-culture communication.As such,it is a consequent choice of promoting the internationalization of education,deeply carrying on quality-oriented education,improving the ability of cross-culture understanding and communication of both teachers and students,cultivating international elites who have international view and master international regulations,to be able to participate in the international issues and competitions,fully developing international understanding.Mainly based on the view of the background with cross-culture communication,this research forms integrated cognition and definition on education for international understanding,referred with the practices of relevant theoretical of education for International Understanding in both domestic and overseas.Staring at the real status of the high-school students’ abilities of international understanding,the primary factors that can influence the high school students’ abilities of international understanding,and how to improve high-school students’ abilities of international understanding practically and effectively,the author conducts a systematic questionnaire designation and survey,from multidimensional views of the cognition of the students on the traditional cultures,the understanding and identification on international cultures and their customs,the coping with the relationships among the countries during their inter-communications;and at the same time,with targets,the author selects some representatives of the teachers and students,designs interviewing topics related to the current status of the ability of international understanding and demands,adapts semi-structural interview method,and summarizes the practical investigations and analyzes the existing problems as follows:The students in this school have better international cognitive capacities.Their perspectives are able to keep pace with the times and conform to the developments of the times.They’ve started to view the world and understand the exotic cultures with a tolerated and opened mind,and they have a certain sense of social responsibility.Meanwhile,some issues can be reflected as well,such as the juniors’ weakening cognition of the traditional culture,strong national pride,mature handling and cognition ability with regards to international disputes and conflicts.All of these prove that Education for International Understanding should be attached with more importance in the education of our country.In order to further improve the teaching methods of education for International Understanding,concluding to the present working reality and the ability of students to accept cognition,the author proposes practically feasible improvement strategies with combining the actual situation of the education in this school,from several aspects:the cognition on national cultures,the development of courses,the ability of communications,constructions of communicating platform,elimination of misunderstanding in understanding.The strategies effectively enrich the education for international understanding and the teaching methods in improving the ability of international understanding,which obtains remarkable efficiency,and provides better practical direction in improving students’ better understanding of international understanding education in the stage of elementary education in China.