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Intercultural Education on the Theme of the Belt and Road Initiative: A Multimodality Oriented Pedagogical Design

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The launch of the Belt and Road initiative has created a demand for a large number of talented people imbued with good global vision and intercultural competence . It is of great significance, therefore, to consider how to make full use of this international initiative to develop Chinese students’ intercultural competence in this internet age. After a discussion of multimodal interaction in internet-mediated learning environments and a review of previous practice, this chapter explores how to conduct effective pedagogical design for intercultural education of students. Taking the online platform as an indispensable part, a blended instruction pattern can be constructed from a multimodal interaction perspective. The main purpose of this chapter is to introduce a pedagogical design using international and domestic affairs for students’ intercultural education, which is a practice of “internationalization at home.”

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This work was partially sponsored by 2016 China Foreign Language Education Foundation Project “Promoting the Development of International Talents at Chinese Universities: Based on English-Taught General Education Program” (No. ZGWYJYJJ2016B05), 2017 Tongji University Teaching Reform Project “Intercultural Competence and International Orientation: A Reformed English Majors’ Syllabus” (No. 1100104108/003) and Tongji University “The Belt & Road Initiative” Think Tank Project “Developing Students’ International Competence under the Background of the Belt & Road Initiative: Teaching and Practice” (No. wx0110020171025).

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Huang, L. (2018). Intercultural Education on the Theme of the Belt and Road Initiative: A Multimodality Oriented Pedagogical Design. In: Cheng, Y., Song, L., Huang, L. (eds) The Belt & Road Initiative in the Global Arena. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5921-6_3

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