The Strategies of Fostering Students’ Cross-Cultural Awareness in Secondary School English Teaching
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Based on the previous study on the framework of cultivating cross-cultural awareness, this study focuses on strategies in practice for Secondary School English teaching. It aims at explaining how to effectively promote the target culture teaching and learning and develop key competencies of cross-cultural awareness in the context of Chinese learners of English. The author proposes different methods and strategies for cultivating Secondary English students’ cross-cultural awareness in accordance with features of two aspects of teaching and learning, namely at curricular and extracurricular time.
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