Abstract This thesis takes second language acquisition and constructivism as its guiding theories and draws on other theories of English extracurricular activities and intercultural communicative competence to analyze several problems existing in high school’s English teaching based on the current situation of English teaching in high schools。 The thesis points out that the English extracurricular activity is a vital channel to strengthen students’ language application and cultivate their intercultural communicative competence。 On this basis, combined with the author’s own teaching practice, the thesis discusses a number of measures with the intention of strengthening English extracurricular activities in high schools and improving students’ intercultural communicative competence effectively。94794

Key words: foreign language reform; English teaching in high schools; English extracurricular activities; intercultural communicative competence

摘要本文以第二语言习得研究的理论和建构主义为基础，综合英语第二课堂以及跨文化交际能力等相关理论，基于中学英语教学的现状，阐述了中学英语教学存在的若干问题，并强调了英语第二课堂是加强学生语言运用、提高学生跨文化交际能力的重要手段。在此基础上，结合自己的教学实践，讨论了加强英语第二课堂活动、提高学生跨文化交际能力的若干措施。

毕业论文关键词：外语教学改革；中学英语教学；第二课堂活动；跨文化交际能力

Contents

1。 Introduction 1

2。 Literature Review 2

2。1 Researches home and abroad 2

2。2 Theoretical bases 3

3。 The problems existing in high school’s English teaching 5

3。1 The limitations of traditional classrooms 5

3。2 The lack of teachers’ intercultural awareness 6

3。3 The deficiency of students’ ICC 7

4。 The application of ECA and cultivation of students’ ICC in high schools 8

4。1 English lectures 8

4。2 English corners 9

4。3 English broadcasting stations 9

4。4 English films 10

4。5 English optional courses 10

4。6 English speech contest 11

4。7 English social clubs 11

4。8 English culture festivals 12

5。 Conclusion 13

Works cited 14

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 With the in-depth reform of foreign language education, great changes and challenges have been brought to the traditional English education in high schools, and furthermore new requirements have been put to the modern English course。 As we know, the fundamental purpose of foreign language education is to achieve cross-cultural international communication。 However, a major problem of foreign language education in China is to ignore students’ intercultural communicative competence, which is the ability of using language to communicative with foreigners in a narrow sense。 Broadly speaking, it is a kind of sensitivity to cultural difference, tolerance to cultural persity and flexibility to deal with the culture。 The traditional classroom teaching is teacher-centered and examination-oriented, where students’ opportunity to practice the oral language and develop the intercultural awareness is very limited, resulting in separation between language learning and application, consequently their intercultural communicative competence is poor。 In order to cultivate students’ intercultural communicative competence, we must make full use of the role of English extracurricular activities, referring to different kinds of English learning activities performed by students making the best of out-of-class time, guided and organized by the schools, which fall outside the realm of the normal curriculum, which is an effective complement to the First Classroom for English teaching, aiming to create a loose, relaxed and authentic learning atmosphere for students to practice their oral competence and give them more opportunities to get in touch with intercultural knowledge。