Author(s)

Lijuan Wu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ English Department, Heilongjiang International University, Harbin, 150000, China

Corresponding Author

Lijuan Wu

ABSTRACT

With the trend of globalization and the development of English education, college English education has altered its goal to cultivating students' intercultural communicative competence. However, the current situation is that contemporary college English teachers lack the training in this respect in the process of major study. Therefore, we should first get a general picture of college English teachers' knowledge level on English kinesics. A survey is done to investigate their knowledge, learning motivation as well as input and acquisition channels on English kinesics.

KEYWORDS

College English teaching; Intercultural communication; English teachers; English kinesics

CITE THIS PAPER

Lijuan Wu, A Study on College English Teachers' Knowledge Level on English Kinesics. Adult and Higher Education (2023) Vol. 5: 16-26. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aduhe.2023.051104.

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