国际中文教育志愿者是海外汉语教育的主力军，肩负着汉语教学与促进中国文化走出去的使命，为满足世界各地中文学习需求、加深中国与世界的相互了解作出了重要贡献。他们的跨文化交际能力对其工作与生活有着重要的影响，直接关系到能否适应在海外生活和顺利开展汉语教学工作。基于对跨文化交际和跨文化交际能力内涵的梳理研究，本文进一步探索国际中文教育志愿者跨文化交际能力和身份的定义。通过对20位在美国、英国、泰国和韩国任教的汉语教师志愿者进行访谈调查所得真实案例，提出国际中文教育志愿者的跨文化交际身份构建：语言知识的授道者、中华文化传播者和跨文化交际架桥者，并分析当前国际中文教育志愿者跨文化交际能力及身份构建中存在的问题，提出解决案，以期对国际中文教育志愿者自身跨文化能力的提高及相关部门的跨文化交际培训有启示意义
Volunteer Chinese language teachers are a main force of overseas Chinese language education, carrying out the mission of teaching Chinese language and promoting Chinese culture overseas, and make important contributions to meet the needs of Chinese language learning around the world and deepen the mutual understanding between China and the world. Their intercultural communication competence has an important impact on their work and life abroad, which in turn, is directly related to whether they can adapt to life overseas and carry out Chinese teaching successfully. Based on the study and summary about intercultural communication and intercultural communicative competence and their respective connotations, this paper explores the definition of intercultural communicative competence of volunteer Chinese language teachers. Based on an interview and with 20 volunteer Chinese language teacher teaching in the United States, the United Kingdom, Thailand and South Korea, and the real cases obtained, the identity construction of volunteer Chinese language teachers in the intercultural communication domain is put forward, they are the instructors of language knowledge, the disseminators of Chinese culture and the bridge builders of intercultural communication. The paper also analyzes the problems existing in the intercultural communicative competence and the identity construction of volunteer Chinese language teachers, and puts forward solutions, expecting to be of significance to the improvement of the intercultural competence of volunteer Chinese language teachers and the intercultural communication training of relevant departments.
