跨文化交际教案chapter 4 interculture communication

Chapter IV Intercultural Communication

ⅠTeaching Objectives

1.To identify the definitions of intercultural communication, interpersonal communication,

intracultural communication, cross-cultural communication, international communication, interethnic communication, interracial communication, interregional communication.

2.To understand the four fundamental values of western ethics.

3.To understand the different ethics that belongs to the different part of the world.

4.To understand the definition and main components of intercultural communication.

ⅡLeading in

ⅢT eaching Procedures

Step 1

Have students listen to the lead-in case What is Wrong?

Ask students warming-up questions:

●What is going wrong in this case?

●Have you ever misunderstood someone who came from a different culture?

●What is intercultural communication?

●What intercultural communication skills do you know? Please list some of them.

Step 2

Culture and Communication

The metaphor of the journey and the map can help us understand the relationship between culture and communication. Cultures are both the maps of a place (the rules and conventions) and the journeys that take place there (actual practices).

Intercultural communication defined

Forms of Intercultural communication

a. Interpersonal Communication

b. Intracultural Communication

c. International Communication

d. Interethnic Communication

e. Interracial Communication

f. interregional Communication

4.3.1 Interpersonal communication

Interpersonal communication is a form of communication that involves

both to adapt their messages specifically for those others and to obtain immediate interpretations

Intracultural communication is defined as communication between and among members

Generally, people who are of the same race, political persuasion, and religion or who share the same interests communicate intraculturally.

4.3.3 International communication

4.3.4 Interethnic communication

4.3.5 Interracial communication

Interracial communication occurs when the sender and the receiver exchanging messages are from

4.3.6 Interregional communication

Interregional Communication refers to the exchange of messages between members of the dominant culture within a country.

Intercultural communication ethics

4.4.1 Western ethics

Being free to act consistent with one’ own principles.

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Impartiality; giving each person his or her legitimate due or portion of the whole.

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Accountability for the consequences of one’s actions, including a failure to act.

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Partiality to those who cannot protect themselves and to whom we are in special relationships.

4.4.2 African ethics

rights.

4.4.3 Buddhist ethics

Value is placed which are to be pursued for the betterment of the person if not in this life, then in the next.

4.4.4 Hindu ethics

Hinduism strives for the for including individualism, to merge with the absolute.

4.4.5 Islamic ethics

Traditional Islamic perspectives on ethics are based on its religious concepts. There are different rules of ethical conduct for women and for men.

Step3

Raising Intercultural Awareness:

采访外国人：教师布置学生就某些特定问题采访一些外国人，并引导学生比较不同的受访者做出的回答，以及他们对采访和采访问题所表现出的态度和反应。

活动目的：该课堂活动旨在帮助学生了解不同文化对待某些事物看法和态度的异同。 活动过程描述：

步骤一：

教师课前布置学生就某些共性的问题对外国人进行采访。最好每1至2位学生采访1位外国人，这有助于学生拥有足够的信息资源进行比较。

表7-6 样卷

步骤二：

采访结束后，教师在课堂上引导学生就采访结果进行比较和讨论。