| Declaration | 第1-5页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| Abbreviations | 第9-10页 |
| List of Figures and Tables | 第10-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-18页 |
| ·Background | 第13-14页 |
| ·Rationale | 第14-15页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Layout of the thesis | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第18-41页 |
| ·Intercultural Sensitivity: A Working Definition | 第18-19页 |
| ·Models on Intercultural Sensitivity | 第19-32页 |
| ·Bennett's Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS | 第20-25页 |
| ·Chen and Starosta's Model of Intercultural Communication competence | 第25-32页 |
| ·Instruments for Measuring Intercultural Sensitivity | 第32-35页 |
| ·Bhawuk and Brislin's Intercultural Sensitivity Inventory (ICSI) | 第32-33页 |
| ·Hammer and Bennett's Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) | 第33-34页 |
| ·Chen and Starosta's Intercultural Sensitivity Scale (ISS) | 第34页 |
| ·Olson and Kroeger's Global Competency and Intercultural Sensitivity Index (ISI) | 第34-35页 |
| ·Intercultural sensitivity in Intercultural Training and Education | 第35-37页 |
| ·Empirical Studies on Intercultural Sensitivity | 第37-41页 |
| Chapter Three Conceptual framework | 第41-48页 |
| ·Overview | 第41页 |
| ·Definition of culture learning | 第41-43页 |
| ·Culture learning as a three-party dialogue | 第43-48页 |
| Chapter Four the Study | 第48-56页 |
| ·Overview | 第48页 |
| ·Research questions and hypotheses | 第48页 |
| ·Operationalization of the variables | 第48-50页 |
| ·The Experiment | 第50-56页 |
| ·Research design | 第50-51页 |
| ·The survey instruments | 第51-52页 |
| ·Subjects | 第52-53页 |
| ·The procedures of collecting data | 第53-54页 |
| ·Analytical methods | 第54-56页 |
| Chapter Five Results and Discussion | 第56-81页 |
| ·Overview | 第56页 |
| ·Reliability of ISS | 第56-57页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第57-65页 |
| ·Results of the Pre-test | 第58-59页 |
| ·Results of Posttest | 第59-65页 |
| ·Discussion | 第65-81页 |
| ·Big C Culture vs. little c culture | 第66-68页 |
| ·Naturalistic setting vs. structured setting | 第68-71页 |
| ·Western teacher and Chinese students—different cultures of teaching/learning | 第71-81页 |
| ·Cultural Differences in learning styles | 第72-76页 |
| ·Different views on the role of the teacher | 第76-78页 |
| ·Different views on the function of the textbook | 第78-81页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第81-87页 |
| ·Overview | 第81页 |
| ·Summary of the major findings | 第81-82页 |
| ·Implications | 第82-84页 |
| ·Limitations | 第84-85页 |
| ·Questions for future study | 第85-87页 |
| Appendix I | 第87-89页 |
| Appendix II | 第89-92页 |
| Appendix III | 第92-94页 |
| References | 第94-100页 |
