This case study analyzed how a group of English learners built critical intercultural awareness through the discussion of cultural events as reported in news media such as The New York Times, the U.S. News, and The Telegraph. Learners’ critical reflections on controversial social conflicts related to injustice, gender inequality, and stereotypes in different cultures constituted the core data collected through field notes, logs, and one questionnaire. Findings revealed that English learners not only gained new knowledge about beliefs, values, and behaviors that cause conflict in other cultural communities, but compared them critically to their own culture. This research concluded that integrating news in EFL education can be a salient instructional material to help EFL speakers become more critical intercultural individuals through topics belonging to deep culture.

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通过国际新闻提高英语学习者的跨文化能力

本案例研究分析了一群英语学习者如何通过讨论文化事件（如《纽约时报》，《美国新闻》和《电讯报》）报道的文化事件来建立批判性的跨文化意识。学习者对与不公正，性别不平等和不同文化中的定型观念有关的有争议的社会冲突的批判性思考构成了通过现场笔记，日志和一份调查表收集的核心数据。研究结果表明，英语学习者不仅获得了有关在其他文化社区中引起冲突的信念，价值观和行为的新知识，而且还将它们与自己的文化进行了批判地比较。