Why ICC ?

intecultureal commucative competence 

3 aspects: lingustic / sociclinguistic/ dicourse comp

skills of interpreting:

Knowledge, critical cultural awareness , openness / curiosity

Skills of discovery/ interaction

two features for college english course: instrumental and humanistic 

How to get there?

plan lesson: discovery--comparison--curiosity--knowledge--crituqe

objectives: 1. linguistic 2. 

example: Christmas cards 

How to give the lesson?

Before/ in / after class 

Where: a model 

How: examples 

spoken : I hear what you say .

Unspoke: in Britian-- but i  am not interested in

in china or france ---he is listening to me

we should notice spoken and unspoken text in different cultures.

Culture is verb referring to what people do/behave/ value/ believe  in daily life in a certain culture.

e.g.  how to start a small talk with a stranger

rules are for most of people instead of  all.

Learning cultures:1. discovering and comparing cultures between ours and others = intercultural communicative competance

Teaching culture: How to discover , compare, analyse and critique our and their cultures.

Culture is a verb. It products what we do.