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Use of Foreign Films in Cultivating Intercultural Communicative Competence in ELT—A Case Study

Author(s) -

Yue Jianying

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

theory and practice in language studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2053-0692

pISSN - 1799-2591

DOI - 10.17507/tpls.0902.09

Subject(s) - communicative competence , foreign language , psychology , communicative language teaching , competence (human resources) , intercultural competence , english as a foreign language , empirical research , foreign language teaching , pedagogy , mathematics education , language education , social psychology , philosophy , epistemology

Foreign films have long been used in English Language Teaching (ELT) and been proved effective in improving learners’ linguistic competence. Cultivating Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) has gradually become a vital goal in English Language Teaching (ELT). However, whether foreign films can be used to improve learners’ ICC is less researched. Taking Byram’s ICC model, this paper tends to show foreign films can also be effective in improving learners’ ICC. This article reports an empirical study designed to explore the processes students engage in when viewing Disney film Mulan in a Chinese college classroom. Students’ study blogs, quizzes, and interviews are major research data and the analysis of the data illustrated foreign films’ role in cultivating learners’ ICC and explored the mental process of students’ interpretation of foreign films.

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