Cultivating Students’ Cultural Confidence in Col

Cultivating Students’ Cultural Confidence in

College English Watching Listening and Speaking

ClassroomYang Li

Chengdu College of Arts and SciencesAbstract: In today’s society, as the reform of the university education system

continues to advance, the purpose and content of university English teaching is

gradually adjusted to improve students’ overall English ability, especially the

need to strengthen students’ watching, listening and speaking abilities and skills.

Students need to be able to use their English skills proficiently in their studies,

work and social life to meet their English needs. An important role of the college

English watching, listening and speaking classroom is to improve students’ daily

English social skills, and by giving full play to the role of English watching,

listening and speaking, students will be able to strengthen their understanding of

English and their ability to express themselves orally. Although there has been

research on the teaching of English watching, listening and speaking for some time,

and the functional and practical areas of English watching, listening and speaking

are increasing, there are still many shortcomings. Therefore, there is a need to

effectively integrate modern teaching resources, focus on strengthening students’

cultural confidence in the classroom, and coordinate the links between the various

components in order to help students improve their overall English language ds: College English; Watching; Listening and Speaking Classroom;

Cultural ConfidenceDOI: 10.47297/wspiedWSP2516-250016.20220602In the long-term practice of teaching English, it is concluded that closely

integrating the essence of Chinese culture with the teaching of English can

effectively improve students’ ability to listen, speak, read and write. In this way,

while testing students’ basic mastery of English, it can also strengthen students’

Chinese cultural literacy and help develop their self-confidence and sense of

achievement in learning English. Chinese culture is significant in strengthening

students’ self-confidence. Students can share their understanding of Chinese culture

About the author: Yang Li (1988-07), Female, Sichuan Province, Han nationality, School

of International Studies, Teaching Assistant, Master, English Translation & Bilingual Com-munication.

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Journal of International Education and Development Vol.6 No.2 2022and inspire a strong sense of patriotic enthusiasm and national pride, which can

motivate them to learn English knowledge consciously and actively. Teachers

need to improve their teaching effectiveness in the audiovisual classroom, mediate

the class rhythm and simplify the teaching steps. Besides, we need to enrich the

interaction between teachers and students and enhance the emotion between

teachers and students.1. The Significance of Developing Cultural Confidence in the College

English Watching, Listening and Speaking ClassroomThe root of the national spirit and the crystallization of the people’s wisdom

is culture, the original driving force that embodies the core values of socialism

and the spiritual motivation to realize the Chinese dream. Self-confidence is the

expression of excellent personality, and the self-confidence in Chinese traditional

culture is expressed as the broad-mindedness and the tenacious and unyielding

spirit. Cultural self-confidence can give full play to the national spiritual power,

and is the spiritual foundation for the Chinese nation to stand in the world.

College students are the future of the country and the successors of socialist

modernization. In the process of university education, it is especially necessary to

strengthen the cultivation of students’ self-confidence. However, the cultivation of

college students’ self-confidence should not only focus on the self-confidence of

cultural contents, but also teach students to master the ways and methods of self-confidence, so that they can understand how to face different cultures and different

ideas, “take the essence and remove the dross”, promote the national culture and

inherit the spirit of China. Therefore, cultivating the cultural self-confidence of

college students is of great theoretical and practical significance to enrich students’

character education and build a strong society.(1) Theoretical significanceBuilding the cultural confidence of college students is conducive to enriching

and improving the teaching system of English watching, listening and speaking

speaking. The purpose of teaching English watching, listening and speaking

courses is to improve students’ comprehensive ability. Promoting the cultural

confidence of college students and integrating the core socialist values into the

teaching process can not only promote the construction of socialism with Chinese

characteristics, but also enable students to continuously comprehend the essence

of Chinese culture and inspire a strong sense of national identity and mission.

In addition, cultural self-confidence can broaden students’ horizons so that they

can examine and judge the performance of things from a dialectical perspective,

comprehend the law of development of things, effectively control themselves and

grasp the future.96

Journal of International Education and Development Vol.6 No.2 2022(2) Realistic meaningFirstly, it is conducive to improving the learning outcomes of English

audio-visual teaching, regulating the classroom atmosphere and enriching the

teaching content. Classroom time for English teaching is limited, while students

consolidation and use in daily life is unlimited. Therefore it is necessary to

strengthen students’ cultural confidence so that they can actively and consciously

strengthen their consolidation and study of English outside the classroom in order

to complete the learning tasks assigned by teachers in a quality manner, improve

their overall English ability, and meet the demand for English talents from the

country and ly, it contributes to the scientific and practical nature of character

education work. The cultivation of cultural self-confidence in higher education

institutions should be based on the current situation of cultural self-confidence

of contemporary college students. Therefore, it is necessary to accurately grasp

the current situation of college students’ thoughts and effectively analyze as well

as solve it. At the same time, the ideological and cultural education activities are

actively carried out to strengthen patriotic cultural y, cultural confidence helps college students establish correct values.

With the rapid development of science and technology and the high-speed

transmission of information, the world has entered the era of “global village”.

Contemporary college students are immersed in a vast sea of information

every day, among which there is the impact of ideas and culture. Therefore, in

the teaching process, it is necessary to cultivate students’ cultural confidence,

strengthen their understanding and promotion of traditional culture, “critically

inherit” foreign culture and ideas, firmly establish national beliefs and national

sentiments.2. Specific Measures to Cultivate Cultural Confidence in the Teaching

of “Watching, Listening and Speaking” in University English(1) Integrating traditional culture into English “audio-visual speaking”

teachingChinese traditional culture is profound and has a long history. After students

learn about the essence of Chinese traditional culture, they face the problem of how

to absorb and master it. In the past, most of the English teaching content was based

on Western history, culture, humanities, and society, with the purpose of exposing

students to “pure” English knowledge and achieving standard English skills. In

the long run, the English classroom has become a cradle for the dissemination and

promotion of British and American culture, to the extent that the inculcation of

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are well illustrated by contemporary students’ love for Western holidays. Many

students are familiar with “Christmas” and “Thanksgiving Day”, but know little

about “Chongyang Festival” and “Dragon Boat Festival”. This is contrary to the

original intention of the country to cultivate talents with socialist core values, and

may even encourage students to worship foreigners. Therefore, it is necessary

for teachers to effectively adjust and improve the content of the college English

“watching, listening and speaking” teaching, integrate traditional Chinese cultural

ideas into the teaching practice, guide students to look at Western culture and ideas

rationally, and improve their ability to learn English comprehensively by avoiding

their example, when explaining sports and the Olympic spirit, the textbook

should not only contain relevant information and personalities from abroad. China

also has many athletes and Olympic medalists who have won glory for their

country, and in 2008, China hosted the Olympic Games in Beijing. It is not only

the national spirit of the Olympic athletes’ perseverance, tenacity and never giving

up that has deeply inspired the children of China. During the Beijing Olympic

Games, countless outstanding volunteers, security workers, and behind-the-scenes workers emerged. Their glorious deeds and national spirit are also worth

learning and carrying forward by college students. Therefore, teachers should

make a scientific and reasonable design for the teaching content, so that students

can experience the Olympic spirit with Chinese characteristics in a diversified and

deeper way, and taste the meaning of fraternity, fairness and justice of Chinese

Confucian culture from the Olympic spirit of all people, so that the teaching of

English “watching, listening and speaking” will no longer become only a means of

spreading Western ideas.

(2) Integrating life elements into English “watching, listening and speaking”

teachingWestern countries, represented by the United Kingdom and the United States,

have cultures, religious beliefs, ideas, languages, and behavioral logic that are

vastly different from those of China, so students will struggle, become anxious,

or even resent or resist learning English knowledge, which seriously affects the

quality of teaching and learning and makes half the effort. Situational teaching

method can be a good solution to this problem. By organically linking many

elements in real life with English knowledge, it will present the picture of daily

life in students’ brains, deepen their understanding of English knowledge while

stimulating their interest in learning, and thus improve their English usage example, when teachers test students’ English language organization

skills, they can introduce real-life events into the English writing topics, for

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snack, geographic culture, or folklore. Or they can divide students into English

discussion groups to discuss current events in China, topics of common interest,

etc. For example, “What has been the impact of the covid-19 epidemic on our

society?”, “What policies have been introduced by our government in response

to the epidemic and what are their objectives?”, “By understanding the current

situation of the epidemic in the world, analyze the advantages of our country in

controlling the epidemic, and what are the political intentions of the so-called mass

immunization.” And so on.(3) Incorporate patriotic ideas to strengthen students’ cultural confidenceThe growth of the student body is crucial to the development of nations and

peoples. Nowadays, countries around the world compete fiercely, not only for

military, economic, and technological strength, but also for cultural, spiritual,

and national cohesion, which has become the main expression of a country’s

comprehensive strength. Through patriotic education, it helps to cultivate students’

national sentiments and inspire national cohesion, so that they can better engage

in their studies and lives, and gradually develop noble sentiments and firm cultural

example,

The Encyclopedia of Great Britain

contains many historical

figures and glorious deeds of China, from which teachers can select typical

patriots and their deeds to read aloud to students. In this way, students can learn

how foreign minds view typical Chinese historical figures and what their attitudes

are towards their deeds. This will enable students to use “transpersonal thinking”

to measure what is right and what is wrong, inspire national pride, and build

confidence in Chinese culture.3. ConclusionTo sum up, English teaching should be reformed and innovated in line with

the development of the times. Adding Chinese cultural elements to the English

watching, listening and speaking classroom can quickly build students’ cultural

confidence. The continuous development of cultural confidence will, in turn,

improve students’ overall English proficiency and train them to become the high-quality talents needed by the country and society.99

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