The Effects of Film Appreciation on Improving the Students’ Intercultural Communication Competence

Abstract

With the global economic integration and the increasing exchanges between the outside world and China, effective communication becomes an important topic in intercultural communication. Foreign language education is not merely the teaching of language, and it should cultivate students’ intercultural communication competence in different cultural backgrounds, which becomes the new objective of current foreign language education. Film is the microcosm of a nation’s cultural life, so it is an important way to learn a nation’s cultural background. Therefore, film appreciation lesson is an important way for culture teaching and at the same time shows the authentic English, which makes it superior in cultivating students’ intercultural communication competence.