Author(s)

Chong Liu, Ting Huang, Hanzheng Lin, Xinlei Mao

School of English Language, Zhejiang Yuexiu University, Shaoxing, China.

Following the New English Curriculum published by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China (2022), students in junior high school are highly required to analyze the cultural similarities as well as discrepancies among different countries to cultivate both their awareness and competence in cross-cultural communication. Moreover, combined with the specialists’ recommendations of implementing drama-in-education (DIE) and the policy of the national “double reduction”, this paper intends to discuss effective measures of integrating “cross-cultural role play” into English sitcoms under the guidance of speech act theory, innovating a new students-centered teaching model based upon the case in F junior high school, N city. Drawing on the questionnaire answers which were completed by 166 second-year students in four parallel classrooms, this study aims to detect students’ current cross-cultural competence level while providing valuable theoretical and practical references for the future development and innovation of the “Sitcom-based” English Teaching Method, effectively cultivating junior high school students’ overall development through “cross-cultural role play” in both first-class and second-class.

Cross-Cultural Role Play, The Speech Act Theory, “Sitcom-Based” English Teaching Method, Junior High School Students, New English Curriculum

Liu, C. , Huang, T. , Lin, H. and Mao, X. (2024) Research on the Application of the “Cross-Cultural Role Play” into “Sitcom-Based” English Teaching Methodology from the Perspective of Speech Act Theory. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 12, 105-119. doi: 10.4236/jss.2024.125007.