1. 研究目的与意义

Intercultural communication has become a gradually mature and systematic subject in many developed countries while there is no obvious progress in our country, so it is necessary for us to speed up the pace.

The significance of the thesis will be listed as follows. Firstly, studying intercultural communication helps to stimulate studentsinterests in cross-cultural learning. Secondly, a vast amount of cultural knowledge can not only enrich the horizons, but also have a positive effect on English reading, which has many benefits on improving reading skills and abilities. Thirdly, further globalization requires more and more international talents and it has become a clear objective on high educations. English teaching is not just teaching language itself, but now focuses more on developing studentsability to apply foreign languages into the intercultural communications in the future. Therefore, study on intercultural communications has practical significance on English teaching.

2. 文献综述

in the process of globalization, people from all the countries interact more and more closely. however, there is a great difference between their cultures, such as religion, social norms, values and behaviors. people from different cultural backgrounds cannot avoid cultural distinctions when they are engaged in communications. so in the foreign exchange, it is impossible for people who do not know foreign cultures to use foreign language for effective communications. however, traditional foreign language teachingin chinaputs more emphasis on the form of languages and less on cultural factors, which made students lack intercultural communication competence. nowadays we have the deep understanding that if we want to use foreign languages for intercultural communications, it is necessary to comprehend foreign cultures, experience the chinese and foreign culture differences, and improve our own intercultural communication competence.

edward t. hall who is considered as the father of intercultural communication used the term intercultural communicationfirst time with his publication of the silent language in 1959. he said (1959), intercultural communication refers to the communication that takes place between people fromdifferent cultural backgrounds or people who have different cultural beliefs, values or behaviors.there are two main ways for people to havecommunications, which are calledverbal communication and non-verbal communication. the integration of these two ways constitutes a complete human communication system. to succeed in intercultural communication, people should not only possess basic language ability, but also have cognitive ability of social culture which is part of non-verbal communication. if both sides of the communication do not know the culture of the other countries, just from their own cultural background, they will certainly fail. therefore, we should pay attention to cultivating studentsintercultural communication competence in the process of english learning.

zhao xianzhou (1992), an expert who studies chinese teaching in foreign language, said: the reason why intercultural communication became possible is that human beings enjoy some common cultural information; and the reason why intercultural communication causes deviations is because the two sides can not share some of the different information.intercultural communication is a field of study that emphasizes how people who come from different cultural backgrounds devote to communicate and interact. since 1960s, with the rise of sociolinguistics and the development of language, the theory of intercultural communication arose at the historic moment. more and more foreign researchers have intensified their researches on intercultural communication, and many universities in the united states have begun to establish intercultural communication courses. in recent years, many scholars in china also began to study the impact of intercultural communication on english teaching, such as vocabulary, speaking and listening.the study of intercultural communication in vocabulary, speaking and listening of english teaching has matured. however, author believes that it also has a great influence on english reading teaching, because every part of english teaching has a commonality.

3. 设计方案和技术路线

1、research questions

(1) what is the effect of intercultural communication on english majorsreading achievement?

(2) which psychological factors do affect english majorsreading ability?

4. 工作计划

5. 难点与创新点

In English learning, reading is an important way for learners to acquire language knowledge and social culturein western countries. However, there are someproblems existingin College English reading teaching in our country. Teachers put too much emphasis on the teaching of vocabulary, grammar and language structure, which leads to studentslowreading ability andweakintercultural communication awareness. As one of the core elements of language learning, intercultural communication requires language users to have necessary pragmatic competence in addition to sufficient language knowledge.

Therefore, the thesiswill explore the influence of intercultural communication on English Majors reading ability, and try to introduce intercultural knowledge inEnglish reading teaching withthetheoretical frameworktheAcculturationModel.Then the authorcompares it with the traditional reading teaching and provides the experimental proof. In theexperiment, 90junior English majorsfrom Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine are taken as an example, and they arerandomly divided into two classestoconducttheexperiment. The results show that the English reading achievement of the experimental class is significantly higher than that of the controlled class, which meansthat the introduction of intercultural communication knowledge in the process of learning English canimprove English students reading, and it can also stimulate students interestsin reading and intercultural communicationawareness.