The Cultivation of Students’ Cultural Self-confidence in Middle School English Teaching in Cross-cultural Perspective

Abstract

Language is an important carrier of culture, and it is significant to develop students' cross-cultural awareness in the learning process. Cultural self-confidence is mainly to be filled with a high degree of recognition and pride in one's own culture, and always adhere to the confidence in the vitality of culture, and reasonably abandon one's own culture and artistic culture. With national cultural self-confidence, one is able to identify with one's own history and cultural values, and at the same time, possess a sense of cultural critique. In English teaching, it is inevitable to involve the mutual comparison between many cultures, and the cultivation of intercultural communication skills can also help students communicate with people of different cultural backgrounds. This paper briefly introduces that in the cross-cultural perspective, junior high school English teaching needs to strengthen the construction and implementation of cultural self-confidence, cultivate students' sense of cultural self-confidence, and enhance the overall level of English teaching.