【作者】 张柳；

【导师】 田德新； 徐勤红；

【作者基本信息】 扬州大学 ， 英语， 2020， 硕士

【摘要】 全球化经济的发展加速了世界各地的交流,在交流的过程中就凸显了培养跨文化交际能力的重要性。但从当前的初中英语教学现状来看,初中生的跨文化交际能力相对较低,教学效果并不理想,这就要求我们必须进一步研究去发现可以提升初中生跨文化交际能力的“秘诀”。从二十世纪六十年代开始,国内外学者对跨文化交际能力进行了大量的研究,并提出了利用英文报纸作为教学辅助的建议。本文旨在将《二十一世纪英语报》(青少年版)的阅读纳入初中英语课堂教学,以此来提高初中生的跨文化交际能力水平。本研究以胡文仲(2013)的跨文化交际能力理论框架,提出了两个研究问题:一是学生的跨文化交际能力现状如何,他们目前在提高跨文化交际能力方面有什么困难?二是报纸阅读的整合能在哪些方面提高初中生的跨文化交际能力?研究对象为沛县唐楼中学八年级两个平行班的80名学生。五班在学习课本的基础上,还会从《二十一世纪英语报》中选择阅读材料,《二十一世纪英语报》是由中国日报社编辑的。六班则教授传统英语课本。两个班的学生都在教材中学习跨文化交际能力。本研究所使用的前后测试卷是根据高晓艳(2010)《高中生跨文化交际能力的调查与分析》和《新课程标准》的文化意识目标(5级)设计前、后测试卷。研究者收集了实验前后的数据,有效总数是80。数据分析包括评分、独立样本t检验和配对样本t检验。他们被用来比较两个班级之间以及前后测之间的跨文化交际能力水平是否存在显著差异。本研究结果有两方面:一方面,在学生当前的跨文化交际水平上进行英语教学,英语报刊阅读的整合可以丰富初中英语课堂阅读的内容。从两次测试中我们可以发现,控制班的平均分从26.45提高到28.05,而实验班的平均分从26.80提高到36.28。另一方面,英语报刊阅读的整合可以在跨文化知识、跨文化技能和跨文化意识三个方面提高跨文化交际能力。从后测中所收集到的数据表明,控制班和实验班的跨文化平均知识获取率为12.05:14.15,跨文化技能平均获取率为7.75:10.875,跨文化意识平均获取率为8.10:11.25。研究结果的理论意义主要体现在两个方面:一方面,研究对象是初中生,研究对象的多样性扩大了跨文化交际能力的研究范围,另一方面本文以跨文化知识、跨文化技能和跨文化意识为研究对象,没有试图涵盖其他的因素,因此,本研究更具针对性。此外,本次研究还有三个现实意义。首先,报纸丰富了课堂阅读的内容和种类。其次,报纸阅读的整合是通过阅读与时俱进的故事来提高了学生的学习英语兴趣。最后,通过阅读不仅提高学生的跨文化交际能力,也进一步提高了学生对听、说、写的热情。更多还原

【Abstract】 The trend of globalization necessitates the intercultural communication around the world and highlights the significance of cultivating intercultural communication competence(ICC),Yet,researches on junior middle school students indicate that their ICC is at quite a low level and the teaching of it seems ineffective,making it essential for further research.Since the 1960s,scholars at home and abroad have done a plethora of studies on ICC and put forth some suggestions about utilizing English newspapers as a teaching aid.This thesis aims at integrating the reading of 21st Century Teens,a popular English newspaper,into English class teaching and learning to improve the students’ ICC level.For this purpose,two research questions(RQ)have been raised.RQ1:What’s the junior middle school students’ current status of ICC and what are the main difficulties for the students to improve their ICC?RQ2:In which aspects and to what degree can the integration of newspaper reading improve the intercultural communication competence level of the junior middle school students?To seek the answers to the two RQs,this study has adopted Hu Wenzhong’s(2013)ICC theory as the theoretical framework and the empirical research methods of experiment.The subjects of the experiment in this study consisted of 80 students from two parallel classes of Grade Eight in Peixian Tanglou Middle School.The reasons why they were selected were that they were taught by the researcher,that they had similar English teaching and learning background and English level,and that they were cooperative.Class Five was treated with both the English textbook and the extra reading of the 21st Century Teens,and Class Six with only the English textbook.The weekly newspaper for Class Five was edited by China Daily.The instruments employed in this study were pre-test and post-test adapted and translated from Gao Xiaoyan’s(2010)The Survey and Analysis of High School Students’ ICC and the cultural consciousness target(Level 5)of New Curriculum Standard.The data were collected by the researcher from pre-test and post-test results,and the number of total valid was 80.Data analysis involving scoring,independent-sample T test and paired-sample T test were employed to compare the significant different effects of the two methods in the ICC levels of the two classes.Specifically,the research findings were twofold.On the one hand,the integration of English newspaper reading could enrich classroom reading in junior middle school English teaching and learning and improve the students’ ICC level.From the two tests,we could find that the average score of the CC has improved from 26.45 to 28.05 while that in the EC improved from 26.80 to 36.28.On the other hand,the integration of English newspaper reading could improve the ICC in three different aspects:intercultural knowledge,intercultural communication skills and intercultural consciousness.The intercultural knowledge referred to the fact that intercultural communicators must have sufficient relevant knowledge so that they achieve effective communication.While the intercultural skills referred to the ability of intercultural communicators to implore knowledge flexibly to solve intercultural communication problems on the premise of mastering certain intercultural communication knowledge.The intercultural consciousness referred to the fact that people who learned other languages not only mastered all kinds of relevant knowledge of the language flexibly,but also showed excellent communication competence.In the post-test,the average ratio of acquiring intercultural knowledge was 12.05:14.15,the intercultural communication skills was 7.75:10.87,and the intercultural consciousness was 8.10:11.25.The theoretical implications of the research results reflected in two aspects:the research participants of the thesis are the junior middle school students,which expanded the scope of ICC research in terms of the diversity of the participants.On the other hand,intercultural knowledge,intercultural skills and intercultural consciousness are the research targets without the attempt to cover other factors in this thesis;therefore,the present study is more focused.Besides,there are also three practical implications.Firstly,newspaper reading enriches the classroom reading content and variety.Secondly,the integration of the newspaper reading enhances the students’ interest in English learning with the up-to-date stories.Finally,the improvement of the students’ ICC through reading enhances the students’ passion for other components of classroom English teaching and learning such as listening,speaking and writing.更多还原