ERIC Number: ED514716
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Sep
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-1539-8080
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The Integration of Inter-Culture Education into Intensive Reading Teaching for English Majors through Project-Based Learning
Wu, Shu-jing; Meng, Li-hua
Online Submission, US-China Foreign Language v8 n9 p26-37 Sep 2010
With the research of the relationship between inter-culture and language teaching development, people are well aware of the necessity of integrating inter-culture into language teaching. While providing the opportunity for the students to improve their intercultural communication competence, here, the research presented on the integration of inter-cultural teaching into intensive reading for English majors through Project-based Learning (PBL), which indicates that Project-based Learning is an effective way to integrate inter-culture teaching into intensive reading and it has a positive impact on students' inter-cultural communication competence and their language study and is really productive and rewarding to the English majors. (Contains 5 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Majors (Students), Student Projects, Intercultural Communication, Linguistics, Active Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Content Area Reading, Teaching Methods, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Culture, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Language Proficiency, Student Attitudes, College Students, Questionnaires, Pretests Posttests, Instructional Effectiveness
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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