Author(s)

Li Na,Sun Lina,Sun Xinhong

Corresponding Author

Sun Xinhong

Abstract

The development of world English makes contemporary English teaching generate the transformation of paradigm, while, cross-cultural teaching, as one of the important targets in English teaching, is also facing a new problem and challenge. It is impossible to meet students’ cross-cultural exchange demands only by mastering British and American cultural knowledge. The belief and comprehension of college English teachers on cross-cultural teaching is the key to cross-cultural teaching. This study used the combination of the questionnaire and focus group interview to further study the belief of college English teachers on cross-cultural teaching. Contemporary college English teachers have sufficient cognition on the importance of cross-cultural teaching and started to value the comprehension and spread on the domestic culture, realizing the new challenge of world English development on cross-cultural teaching, but majorities of teachers still regard a language as a teaching center. Cross-cultural teaching gives priority to transmit knowledge and targets at exchange with people from native language culture countries. It should further explore cross-cultural teaching under the world English.

Keywords

World English, Cross-cultural Teaching, teacher belief, English education, college English teachers.