跨文化交际指的是不同文化背景的人之间的交际。比如外国人如果不懂中国文化,就很难理解中国人见面为什么会问“你吃了吗”。跨文化交际能力是语言能力和社会文化能力的有机结合体。不同民族所处的地理环境、物质社会、宗教等不同,于是也就产生了不同的文化、语言习惯,而本民族的语言习惯和文化又是不可分割的。跨文化交际能力实际包含了“能力”和“文化”两个部分。外语教学的根本目的,就是要培养学生的跨文化交际能力。就初中英语教学而言,在教学中要 Intercultural communication refers to the communication between people of different cultural backgrounds. For example, if foreigners do not understand Chinese culture, it is hard to understand why Chinese people ask “Have you eaten?” Intercultural communicative competence is an organic combination of language ability and social and cultural ability. Different nationalities are in different geographical environments, material societies and religions. Therefore, they have different cultural and linguistic habits, and their ethnic customs and cultures are inseparable. Intercultural communicative competence actually contains two parts: “competence” and “culture”. The fundamental purpose of foreign language teaching is to cultivate students’ intercultural communication skills. For junior high school English teaching, in teaching