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Abstract
General education (GE) is a new fashion in Chinese university courses, as can be seen by the fact that a GE curriculum has been set in several high-ranking universities in China recently. These courses include knowledge of history, arts, science, society, law and medicine, etc., and require English as the bridge between Chinese cultures and English cultures. English departments (or schools) are responsible for introducing foreign civilization within the framework of GE, resulting in the increasingly crucial role of English teachers in China in helping students to develop their intercultural knowledge, skills and awareness. In this new curriculum, teachers and students must acquire the skills for English reading, news listening, academic writing, and conference presenting. This changing scenario means that intercultural competence will need to be a new goal for all English teachers and students in China. In this paper, the development of GE in China is discussed, along with the setting of core courses for GE, and the relationship of GE and Intercultural Communication based on a ‘news-listening’ class analysis.
摘要：中国几所知名高校最近纷纷开设了通识教育课程，从而掀起了通识教育在国内的高潮。通识教育一般包括国内外历史、艺术、科学、社会、法律和医学等学科知识，要求英语作为重要的语言工具成为沟通中外知识的桥梁。于是， 各高校的英语学院及英语教师在通识教育框架下肩负起帮助学生发展其跨文化知识、跨文化技能和跨文化意识的重要职责。在通识教育课程设置中，英语教师和大学生们必须掌握英语阅读、英语新闻听力、学术写作及国际会议报告等基本技能。这种新变化意味着跨文化能力将成为中国高校师生新的教学目标。本文简述了中国的通识教育发展过程，介绍了中国通识教育的核心课程，并基于 “新闻听力”课程阐述了通识教育和跨文化交际的关系。
Notes on contributor
Wang Tiao (王朓) is a lecturer in English, at School of Foreign Languages, Harbin Institute of Technology. She visited the Department of English Studies at Durham University in 2012 for a year as a visiting scholar. Her academic interests include Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Intercultural Communication, and English Literatures.