Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This paper develops a framework for an AI-assisted Chinese-Western cultural comparison course by bringing together Byram’s intercultural communicative competence model, Vygotsky’s constructivism, and Huang et al.’s theory of cultural competence development. It identifies five interrelated course goals: cultural knowledge, cross-cultural practical ability, critical cultural awareness, AI collaboration literacy, and human-AI symbiosis awareness. To achieve these goals, three teaching strategies are proposed. First, content should be reconstructed through multimodal and professionally adapted resources; second, the learning process should be immersive and adaptive; third, assessment should be data-driven and multidimensional to evaluate the goals. The implementation conditions of these strategies are further discussed in terms of teacher AI competence, human-AI boundary negotiation, algorithmic bias mitigation, and differentiated task design. It provides a structured basis for AI-assisted Chinese-Western cultural comparison teaching and for future empirical testing of its effects.
Source: Education and Social Work
DOI: 10.63313/esw.9179
Author: Lin Tang
Institution: Zhejiang Yuexiu University
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7223575403