【正文】 ia 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 with situation edies can ease students’ anxiety, which not only buildbuildss a fortable studying environment, arousing learning passion, but also createcreatess 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，2012). 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 dramatically various forms gathered together by situations as well as sharing the same surroundings such as a home or a particular apartment. Usually situation edies are in length half an hour, where the plot is designed to cover totaling twentytwo minutes in duration and additional eight minutes for another mercial use. Furthermore, in sits the story is either employing plotted applause or taping in advance of a studio audience, which is noted by verbal arguments and quickly settled conflicts.William Asher has been known as a great person who invents the situation edy, in addition who has guided dozens of the major sits in America. In various periods, American situation edies show discriminating characters from 1950s to now in the middle of their developing process. In the nineteen fifties family edies and workplace edies were two genres of initial sits. More fantastic ponents were added into live action situation edies by sits inventor till the middle of the 1960s. What’s more, before nineteen sixties American sits were not filmed in front of the live audiences but postproduced a prerecorded laughter. Situation edies get down to addressing a large amount of controversial issues in the initial 1970s as well as mostly go back to the threecamera system in front of live audience. As for American sits in the 1980s, plentiful American situation edies like Growing Pains returned to family。 generally it can be divided into 2 kinds namely verbal munication and nonverbal munication (賈玉新，1997:12).Booming science and technology and advanced munication and transportation both greatly shorten the distance between those people having respectively different social and cultural characteristics, but their estrangement on the psychological is not easily removed. People from different areas have trouble in municating because of cultural diversity, which usually result in cultural misreading and cultural conflict. Effective munication strategies should be chosen according to various targets to lessen or even avoid munication failure.Chapter Three Language and CultureJustify all of the following words in addition, language is one indispensable element of human life. Because of language we can keep in touch with people around us and e in contact with them. What’s more, we can also through language make our thoughts and experience shared by our friends and relatives or any others. The sentence witnesses its significant role absolutely that language works as the muniment room of history. We can conclude by the very sentence that only we can use language that is also an unique characteristic owned by human beings. There are several different meanings, the most frequently applied and mentioned, of the particular word “l(fā)anguage” as follows: (1) all ways to exchange or municate or express information and thoughts。 (3) the petence to municate via the tool。 due to good understanding of different cultures people know how they can municate well and get along well.From the above, the key characteristics of culture can be easily summarized and these characteristics are helpful to how people manage to have better understanding about culture itself together with the relationship between culture and language.Culture is transmitted and spread by human learning, and it means that people can only learn culture other than inherit it. A number of scientists in culture and munication, including home and abroad, all believe that people acquire the knowledge concerning culture through learning the experience of others and their surroundings。 T. Nakayama, 2000:25). The most distinct system of notations or symbols is definitely language and people in certain culture can understand these symbols in the same culture. The application of these symbols can determine the forms and meanings of technology, life, education and many other fields of faith and knowledge, in addition to the capacity for learning and manip