| The objective of this paper is to promote cultural movies as primary texts of learning and assessment in Cross-Cultural Understanding (CCU) class in order to enhance learners' cultural awareness. This notion grounds on several reasons. Firstly, movies have now been received widely open in education spheres and evidently been accepted as cultural texts, portrayals of social and cultural conditions, which are worthy of close examination. Secondly, watching cultural movies has been merely an additional activity carried out to complement primary activities in CCU class. Next, the opportunity to experience cross-cultural contacts and exchanges as an empirical experience is still restricted to a small number of people. When compared, higher number still goes to those who have never got the real-life cross-cultural experience. Finally, traveling distances to different cultural locations to gain deeper cross-cultural understanding and practice definitely requires more than a 100-minute face-to-face class, which is unlikely to carry out. |