【正文】 pter Four Crosscultural Communicative Competence ............................................. 10 Communicative Competence and Crosscultural Communicative Competence....... 10 Communicative petence .......................................................................... 10 Crosscultural municative petence.................................................... 11 Crosscultural Communicative Awareness ............................................................... 12 Crosscultural Communicative Barriers and Cultivation .......................................... 14 Crosscultural municative barriers .......................................................... 14 Crosscultural municative cultivation...................................................... 15 Chapter Five Improving Crosscultural Communicative Competence in Situation Comedy ................................................................................................................................... 16 Common Problems of English Learning ................................................................... 16 Appreciation of Films and TV Plays in Cultivating Crosscultural Communicative Competence ..................................................................................................................... 18 Application of Situation Comedy in Class ................................................................ 20 Chapter Six Conclusion ........................................................................................................ 22 References .............................................................................................................................. 24 Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................ 25 On the Effectiveness of American Situation Comedy in Cultivating Crosscultural Communicative Competence 1 Chapter One Introduction Background The munications between people from different social cultures and regions have been more and more frequent owning to the globalization. Communicating in cross culture is an obvious feature of the globalizing world where the needs for international talents with specialized knowledge and good crosscultural municative petence are very urgent. Fiercer cultural diversity and the conflict between those cultures have been confronting among contemporary college students. Those questions how to build crosscultural municators’ quality system and how to cultivate international talents who can adapt to their national development are important issues to be urgently solved for higher education. It is important and difficult for university personnel trainers to provide the country with global talents who possess specialized knowledge and intercultural municative petence and directly participate in international exchanges and petitions, and meet new requirements for talented person proposed by international munity. With more emphasis put on both language teaching and culture teaching, there are an increasing number of insiders who do not simply think language teaching as imparting language knowledge but bine language petence together with crosscultural municative petence for developing students’ petence to flexibly use cultural knowledge in crosscultural municative situations. Significance Films are from life and can reflect the national culture and contribute greatly to understanding the target language culture better. Consequently appreciating films would be one key channel to input culture and export culture. Original movie series can make class atmosphere easy, and college English teachers should make full use of the media to boost students’ learning enthusiasm and expand the understanding of western culture, which is to improve students’ crosscultural municative petence. Plots in sits are very amusing and interesting. In addition, their lines are largely classic and humorous . Teaching On the Effectiveness of American Situation Comedy in Cultivating Crosscultural Communicative Competence 2 with situation edies can ease students’ anxiety, which not only builds a fortable studying environment, arousing learning passion, but also creates an occasional laugh so that students fall into initiative and active studying habits so as to meet the ultimate goal to improve learners’ intercultural municative petence. Structure The thesis consists of six chapters. The first chapter is introduction, including background and significance and structure of the thesis. The second chapter is literature review. The third chapter introduces language and culture and the relations between language learning and culture learning. Then the fourth part indicates briefly municative petence, crosscultural municative petence, crosscultural municative awareness and crosscultural municative barriers and cultivation. The fifth chapter discusses the improvement of crosscultural municative petence in situation edy, and it refers to three parts as follows: mon problems of English learning, appreciation of films and TV plays in cultivating crosscultural municative petence and application of situation edy in class. Finally, the six chapter is the conclusion of the thesis. Chapter Two Literature Review Situation Comedy Situation edy, also called sits, is one type of edy featuring features that shares the fixed mon setting, like one coffee shop or an apartment or a house, with now and then jokes as one kind of dialogue(蘇莉杰， 2020). Although this type of programs has roots in radio, now situation edies can only be found on television to a great extent. More specifically, sits, involving a fixed cast of actors in one succession of episodes, are either radio set or television series of edies. Besides, frequently all these characters are dramaticall