以電影為素材進行跨校跨文化交際

本文旨在介紹一次以「生死觀」為主題的包含5C特徵的實驗性跨校交流活動。「死亡」是華人文化的禁忌之一，對面死亡的態度、與死亡相關的文化現象和產物…等，既有文化普遍性，也有文化獨特性，是值得中文學習者學習的文化內容。本文作者為CLTA中文電影教學興趣小組(2016年成立）成員，分別任教於美國三所大學，於2020年春季學期Covid-19疫情初起時，分別使用電影《別告訴她》（英文：The Farewell）與《生生》（英文：Sen Sen）於課堂上，繼而合作規劃一次跨校的文化交流活動。該交流活動基於差異化教學、近側發展區間、鷹架與可理解輸入理論而設計，利用數位工具進行非同步與同步跨校交流，交流結果既強化參與交流之學生的語言能力，亦深化其學習中文和中華文化的動機和興趣。

Death is a cultural taboo for most Chinese people. However, it is important for learners to gain a deeper understanding of different cultural contexts related to death and cultural practices when grief is felt and expressed. This paper introduces a cross-cultural communication activity across three higher education institutions exploring the cultural perspectives of mortality. The authors, members of Chinese Language Film Education Exchange – a CLTA special interest group, designed and conducted asynchronous and synchronous online activities to guide students in discussing some of the perspectives and the underlying assumptions surrounding death in Chinese and in Western cultures. They used two recent films, The Farewell (2019) and Sen Sen (2017), to create discussion questions for intermural online interactions after initial discussion in their respective class sessions. The online discussion activities aim to boost students’ language skills and increase their learning motivation and cultural awareness. They were created using pedagogical strategies based on the following principles: differentiated instruction, zone of proximal development, scaffolding, and comprehensive input.