【正文】 ability is Body 7 neglected. To change this situation, we must improve the teaching methods, and pay special attention to the quality of the cultural teaching in the classroom. We should make full use of modernized teaching instruments to improve the students’ study activity, such as films, inter and projectors. Besides this, the teacher can conduct some monographic study to satisfy the student’s studying need, and train the talented persons who have great ability in intercultural munication. But, there is one thing to which the teacher should pay attention: when the teacher improve the teaching methods, they must ensure the new content have a close connection with the knowledge that the student learns and the new contents must bine with the language munication practice. C. utting emphasis on the training of nonlanguage municative ability Nonlanguage munication is also a very important kind of munication. It refers to the course that people use nonlanguage to municate and understand the information on particular occasion. It doesn’t belong to the real language units, but sometimes it can convey stronger meaning than language and munication can do. Some specific nonlanguage behaviors represent the specific meaning. It should be emphasized in intercultural munication. The connotation of the nonlanguage culture under the background of Chinese culture and western culture is very different. For example, Chinese people believe “Silence is gold”. They think there contains plentiful information in silence. Sometimes, they even think silence is better than saying any word. People in western countries often feel unfortable about this. When western people municate with each other, listener will look at the speaker’s eyes, and they think this can show the listener’s conscientiousness and respect. But in Chinese people’s eyes, this is an impolite behavior. Chinese people are not used to being looked at for a long time. D. Asking the students to read more materials about western cultures In the college, the time of English teaching is very limited. But the students have much time to study after classes. So, the students should not be dependent on the teaching by the teacher in the class to improve the intercultural munication. The teacher should ask the students to read western English culture materials, newspapers, magazines and the mentary of current events. Through reading can the students learn culture knowledge, increase culture quality, widen visual field and improve the Body 8 intercultural munication ability. On the other hand, many universities nowadays have foreign language teachers, and students should make full use of this resource. They are live cultural teaching materials. They should play a positive role in the course of transformation of Chinese culture and western culture. Foreign language teachers can municate with the student directly. The student can also go to the classroom to listen the foreign teacher’s reports or classes. Ⅴ .THE SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDYING INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION Studying intercultural munication has great significance. It can reduce the obstacles in intercultural munication. It can reduce municative conflicts. And, it can widen people’s visual field and promote cultural munication. A. Studying intercultural munication can reduce the municative obstacles Every nationality has its own history to develop its cultures. Different geographic and historical background decides the current situation of the different cultures, which leads to the different custom and different behavior standard. In the intercultural munication, if people do not know others’ cultural background, sometimes, they can not understand others’ information correctly. Misunderstanding of munication will appear. For example, in America, some Chinese people are invited to enjoy a party in an American’s house in winter, when they get into the house, they do not put off their coat, then, the host will ask “Are you feeling very cold?”, the Chinese people often say “Yes, rather.”. they do not know, in western countries, when the guests get into the host’s house, they should take off their coat to show their politeness. But when many Chinese students studying abroad enter into the western people’s house, the host says “Let me take your coat.” or “Shall I take your coat?”, the students always answer “No, no.” they do not know this custom in western countries. So, by studying the intercultural munication, people will know different nationality’s cultural background which can help people reduce the obstacles to the greatest possible extent in intercultural munication. B. Studying intercultural munication can reduce the municative conflicts Body 9 Communication conflicts are the promotion of the munication obstacles. The slight municative obstacles can lead to the failure in changing information and ideas, while the serious municative obstacles may result in serious mistakes or munication conflicts. It is just like two persons who can not municate with each other under the same situation. In that case, one person’s “good words to persuade” is understood mistakenly to “bad words to hurt”, the two persons may quarrel with each other, or even fight with each other. For instance, an American business man es to china to do business, he is eager to discuss the business as soon as he gets to the destination. But Chinese manager will not do this immediately. He asks the American businessman to inspect for several days and his secretary to lead the American business man to visit the local scenic spots and historica