| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-19页 |
| ·Background of the research | 第11-14页 |
| ·Challenges to English teaching in the era of globalization | 第11页 |
| ·Status quo of College English teaching in China | 第11-13页 |
| ·Mission of College English teaching in the 21stcentury | 第13-14页 |
| ·Current situation of the teaching of culture in Chinese colleges | 第14-19页 |
| ·Review of culture teaching in FLT in China | 第14-15页 |
| ·A survey | 第15-19页 |
| Chapter Two Literature review | 第19-40页 |
| ·Discussions on culture, language and communication | 第19-24页 |
| ·Categories of culture | 第19-21页 |
| ·Culture and language: An inseparable pair | 第21-22页 |
| ·Culture and communication | 第22-23页 |
| ·Language, culture and communication: an interdependent integration | 第23-24页 |
| ·Practical considerations for stressing cultural studies in English teaching | 第24-25页 |
| ·Intercultural communicative competence and the teaching of English | 第25-40页 |
| ·Linguistic competence | 第25-26页 |
| ·Communicative competence | 第26-29页 |
| ·Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) | 第29-38页 |
| ·Developing ICC in English teaching in China | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter Three Investigations into culture teaching and ICC of non-English majors | 第40-55页 |
| ·Questionnaire | 第40-49页 |
| ·Objectives | 第40页 |
| ·Subjects | 第40-41页 |
| ·Research design | 第41页 |
| ·Results and further discussion | 第41-49页 |
| ·A socio-cultural test | 第49-55页 |
| ·Objectives | 第49页 |
| ·Participants | 第49-50页 |
| ·Test design | 第50-51页 |
| ·Results and further discussion | 第51-55页 |
| Chapter Four Suggestions and implications | 第55-86页 |
| ·Integration of culture: A must in teaching English to non-English majors | 第55-61页 |
| ·A review of culture teaching in the curricula of U.S, England and Taiwan | 第55-56页 |
| ·A review of culture teaching in Chinese curricula | 第56-58页 |
| ·Relevance of culture to reading in nation-wide tests | 第58-61页 |
| ·Cultivating intercultural competence in teaching English reading | 第61-76页 |
| ·The importance of the reading course to non-English majors | 第61-62页 |
| ·Representation of foreign culture in NHCE II | 第62-69页 |
| ·Implications of the textbooks’analysis on the teaching of culture | 第69-74页 |
| ·The ultimate goal of teaching culture: Develop students’ICC | 第74-76页 |
| ·Introducing some practical techniques of teaching culture | 第76-82页 |
| ·Teaching culturally-loaded words and expressions | 第78-80页 |
| ·Developing intercultural awareness in discussions | 第80-81页 |
| ·Teaching how to behave in role-plays | 第81-82页 |
| ·An experimental study on culture teaching | 第82-86页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusions | 第86-90页 |
| References | 第90-96页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ Questionnaire for teachers | 第96-99页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ Questionnaire for students | 第99-102页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ A Social-cultural test (for students) | 第102-109页 |
| Appendix Ⅳ Hall 的高低语境理论和 Hofstede 的文化价值维度理论 | 第109-114页 |
