AI-Empowered Strategies for Cultivating Intercultural Communicative Competence in High School English Teaching
High school English cross-cultural teaching has long faced real challenges like teachers only understanding things superficially, students lacking initiative, and a gap between learning and practical use, while the widespread use of AI has brought new possibilities to tackle these issues. This article focuses on high school English teachers and, using a mix of literature review, surveys, interviews, and case studies, identifies factors limiting the effectiveness of cross-cultural teaching across three dimensions: teachers, resources, and assessment. It also builds a strategy system around textbook use, activity design, resource integration, AI-assisted teaching, and student assessment, which is finally tested with the “Festivals and Celebrations” unit from all three volumes of the PEP textbook series by People’s Education Press.
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