| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter I Introduction | 第10-13页 |
| ·Communication in the new period | 第10-11页 |
| ·Problems of vocational school students’cross-cultural communication | 第11-12页 |
| ·Objective of the paper | 第12页 |
| ·Organization of the paper | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter II Literature Review | 第13-24页 |
| ·Culture | 第13-16页 |
| ·Definition of culture | 第13页 |
| ·Characteristics of culture | 第13-14页 |
| ·Culture and language | 第14-15页 |
| ·Multicultural theory | 第15页 |
| ·Cultural Relativism | 第15-16页 |
| ·Communication | 第16-18页 |
| ·Concept of communication | 第16-17页 |
| ·No direct mind-to-mind contact | 第17页 |
| ·We are alike and we are different | 第17-18页 |
| ·Intercultural communication | 第18-22页 |
| ·Some theories of intercultural communication | 第19-22页 |
| ·Intercultural communication breakdown | 第22-23页 |
| ·Pragmatic breakdown | 第23-24页 |
| Chapter III The Differences between Chinese culture and western culture | 第24-30页 |
| ·We summarize some differences between the two cultures | 第24页 |
| ·Confucianism and Taoism are the sources of Chinese culture | 第24-27页 |
| ·Confucianism | 第24-26页 |
| ·Taoism | 第26-27页 |
| ·Chinese Culture | 第27页 |
| ·Western culture | 第27-30页 |
| ·Dominant American culture patterns | 第27-30页 |
| ·Individualism | 第27-28页 |
| ·Equality | 第28页 |
| ·materialism | 第28页 |
| ·Competition | 第28-30页 |
| Chapter IV A survey vocational school students’ability of intercultural communication | 第30-44页 |
| ·A Survey Study | 第30页 |
| ·Analysis and discussion of the findings | 第30-35页 |
| ·Overcoming cultural misunderstanding by comparison | 第35-44页 |
| ·Culture in proverbs and sayings | 第35-36页 |
| ·Culture in allusions | 第36-40页 |
| ·Culture in nonverbal communication | 第40-42页 |
| ·Culture in the educational setting | 第42-43页 |
| ·The influence of cultural differences in foreign language teaching | 第43-44页 |
| Chapter V Solution to intercultural communication breakdown in English teaching | 第44-50页 |
| ·The teachers’cultural accomplishment must be heightened continuously | 第44-46页 |
| ·Treating cultural stereotype properly | 第46页 |
| ·Minimizing ethnocentrism and prejudice | 第46-47页 |
| ·Implementing multicultural education | 第47-48页 |
| ·In cross-cultural communication we can learn culture from these methods | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter VI Conclusion | 第50-52页 |
| References | 第52-55页 |
| Appendix I | 第55-56页 |
| Appendix II | 第56-58页 |
