Volume 3,Issue 8
Research on the Path to Improve Students’ Cross-Cultural Communication Skills under the SPOC Blended Teaching Model
With the coming of internationalized 2.0 new era, more and more attention was paid to the educational modernization and new requirements are made to nowadays vocational and technical education. SPOC (Small Private Online Course) is a new teaching model which is limited, effective, purpose oriented and flexible. It can solve many problems impeding the implementation of many oral English learning abilities. According to the requirements of Higher Vocational College English Curriculum Standards, cross-cultural communication skill is the core competence of this subject. We must pay attention to and do much work to practice students’ cross-cultural communication skills. SPOC can help overcome many difficulties and improve students’ relevant abilities. This paper will mainly talk about the concrete ways to improve students’ cross-cultural communication skills with the help of SPOC.
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