西南大学培训与继续教育学院课程考试试题卷
学期：2020年春季
课程名称【编号】：跨文化交际【0859】 A卷
考试类别：大作业 满分：100 分
生日贺词大全I．Analyze the following cas，and then answer the given questions. (50%)
1.Ca 1
Can we talk about us?
Anna asks her fiancé, Ben, “Can we talk about us?” Immediately Ben tens up, nsing trouble. He prents himlf for an unpleasant conversation and reluctantly agrees. Anna then thanks Ben for being so supportive during the last few months when she was under en
ormous pressure at her job. She tells him she feels clor than ever to him. Then she invites Ben to tell her what makes him feel loved and clor to her. Although Ben is relieved to them there is no crisis, he’s also baffled翻译实践. “If there isn’t a problem, why do women need to talk about the relationship? If it’s working, let it be.”南北半球分界线
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Question:
Could you explain why Ben was reluctant to have a talk with his fiancée?
This ca shows a common type of clash in cross-gender communication. For women, their relationship is a popular topic while for men, it is not a focus. Generally, men u talk to solve problems rather than to enhance their relationship.
Therefore, the suggestion - -Can we talk about us? produces different respons from men and women. Woman usually
thinks if they are talking with each other, then everything is going smoothly. For Be
n, Anna's suggestion to talk about the healthy relationshp is pointless. For Anna, Ben's reluctance and lack of interest in talking simply hurt her feelings.
2.Ca 2
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Grace is a university student in China, and she has an English conversation class with a Western teacher named Mr. Schmidt. In the class Grace has lots of chances to practice her speaking becau Mr. Schmidt often has the students discuss in pairs or small groups. Grace likes all the speaking practice, but she also worries becau her friends’ English isn’t any better than hers and they cannot correct English mistakes she makes. So Grace also likes to talk directly with Mr. Schmidt when she has the chance.
However, Grace has noticed that even when Mr. Schmidt talks with her in class, he almost never corrects mistakes in her English. This worries her becau she is afraid that if he doesn’t correct her mistakes now, the mistakes will become bad habits that are hard
to break later. So veral times after class she has politely asked Mr. Schmidt to be especially careful about correcting errors she makes in English. He has always assured her that he will.
Today, Grace has just made a speech in class, and hopes that Mr. Schmidt will point out some of her errors. However, after her speech, he only comments about the content of what she said. To her surpri, and frustration, he still says nothing about her grammar.
Questions:
1) Why do you think Mr. Schmidt never corrects Grace’s English mistakes?
2) If you were Grace, what would be your respon to Mr. Schmidt’s “negligence”?
一：
1):Mr. Schmidt thinks it would he rude tocorrect Grace's English errors.
2)Mr. Schmidt doesn't correct Grace becau he doesn't want to interrupt her:he doesn't
张牙舞爪want to discourage Grace fromtalking.
3)Correction and language learning: There is actuallylittle evidence that active correction of mistakes inspoken English by a teacher helps learners improvetheir grammar much. Some corrections help learnerslearn, but most corrections tend to be ignored or forgotten. How much a learner learns depends moreon how carefully he/she pays attention than on howmuch the teacher corrects.
4)饸烙面What many people will do when talking toforeigners is to correct things the foreignersaid wrong by repeating them later correctly, so if the learner pays attention he/ she might still learn a lot.
5)While a language teacher might be willing to interrupt a student of English in order to point outhis/her errors, most Westerners would consider this rude or awkward. In fact, in most countries the average person would probably not interrupt a language learner to correct his/her gramma rmistakes
6)interpreting the behavior of foreigners,we generally have some choice as to how generousto be. How generous or harsh our choices arewill affect how we evaluate the foreigners weencounter.
二：
I will understand of Mr. Schmidt’s “negligence”? , becau western style teaching way is different as Chine .Many Western teachers take an approach to language learning and teaching which emphasizes communication, sometimes even atthe expen of attention to grammatical accuracy.
II. Answer the following questions: (50%)
1.“Stereotype” is said to be one of the potential barriers of intercultural communication. What is “stereotype”? Why we take stereotypes as a barrier of intercultural communication?
Stereotype is mainly refers to people of a certain thing or object a generalized fixed poi
nt of view of form, and the method of this kindI of watch by extension, think the things or has the characteristics of the whole, while ignoring the individual iffereces. This is acommon cognitive style of human beings People may be combined with the past, will come to the conclusion that some generalcharacteristics, and in the future from this first overall in the cognitive characteristics and think to obrve things. As one might thinkthat the Jews stingy, black wild, French romantic, Germans law- -abiding enthusiasm, Italians, ete. In cross- -cultural communication,I stereotype is refers to the asasifiationi of events, objects and people, don't consider the personal characteristics and quality.
