Cultural values are an integral knowledge component of intercultural communication courses,but teaching of the culture values dimension often leads to overly essentialist views of culture.This study designed a cultural paradox lesson to improve traditional teaching of cultural values.The effectiveness of the lesson was evaluated through an intervention experiment and thematic analysis of the students'responses to reflective questions.The results showed that the students gained a deeper understanding of cultural values in terms of their intracultural variability,contextual dependence and mutability.The students'cultural intelligence improved significantly,and was positively correlated with essentialist tendencies,suggesting a low to high level development of their critical thinking skills.
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