Study on professional development of foreign language teacher in cross-cultural communication teaching

in cross-cultural communication teaching process, professional development of Chinese foreign language teachers seems especially important.This paper first presents basic connotation of professional development of foreign language teachers, then carefully analyzes current situation and various problems of professional development of Chinese foreign language teachers and finally proposes some effective approaches to promote professional development of foreign language teachers in combination of actual situations of Chinese foreign language teachers in cross-cultural communication teaching so as to make foreign language teachers really own, coordinate and share precious professional development experience. I. Professional status of foreign language teachers and their professional development