Course description (course books, Requirements, Grading)
Introduction
Course books:
庄恩平主编，跨文化商务沟通教程：阅读与案例。上 海外语教育出版社
Don Snow, Encounters with Westerners, 上海外语教育 出版社。
5. The other groups are supposed to send representatives to take part in the four tasks above. And they will get the proper points if they have responded to these practice:
1) comment the text structure analysis, 1’
2) comment the summary of general idea and key information, 1’
3) answer the questions about essential expressions and structures, 3’
Enculturation (对某种文化的适应), i.e., beyond ethnocentrism (民族优越感)
Requirements:
1. Work in groups, 10 groups in total. 2. Each group is supposed to cover these tasks:
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1. Intercultural Communication as a must in the 21st century
2. intercultural communication as a challenge 3. Intercultural communication's starting point is
1) analyze the text structure; 2) outline the general idea and key information; 3) highlight essential expressions and structures; 4) answer the text-based questions from your classmates. 3. Try your best to work in English in class.
2. How could one decide on whether s/he is experiencing intercultural communication?
复习和预习有什么区别？
Assignment
Encounters with Westerners, Unit 1
About ME:
QI Zong-hai, PhD in English, Beijing Foreign Studies University Research expertise: English literature, Modern
Western Critical Theories
Focus today
Grading:
1. Your grade is based on your performance above. 2. Total point (100’) for IBC everyday performance is
divided into TEN parts, and each week covers 10’. 3. One absence without Qi’s permission costs you 10’. 4. How to grade the presenting group:
4) answer the questions from the presenters, 3’
5) your group will get the rest 2’ if what your group have done is graded as B or above.
Introduction
1. How do you understand intercultural communication?
1) analyze the text structure, 2’ 2) outline the general idea and key information, 2’ 3) highlight essential expressions and structures, 2’ 4) answer the text-based questions from your classmates, 2’ 5) your group will get the rest 2’ if what your group have done is graded as B- or above.