A study on the teaching design of integrating Chinese culture into college English classes: taking Understanding Contemporary China as an example

in the context of globalization, the goal of English teaching has shifted to cultivating talents in cross-cultural communication and international communication. This study focuses on integrating the textbook “Understanding Contemporary China” into college English classes to achieve the integration of culture and language teaching. By setting teaching goals of language ability, cultural awareness and international communication ability, using situational teaching, cooperative learning, task-driven and other methods, designing teaching links covering introduction, knowledge explanation, classroom activities, summary and expansion, and adopting a combination of formative and summative evaluation methods. At the same time, it focuses on teaching reflection, aiming to cultivate talents with cross-cultural communication and international communication capabilities and promote the international dissemination of Chinese culture.

Chinese culture, college English teaching, “Understanding Contemporary China”, cross-cultural communication, international communication ability