Journal of Higher Education Research

From the perspective of cultural confidence, college English teaching faces many challenges. In the teaching process, issues such as the lack of local cultural elements, failure to effectively stimulate cultural confidence, and the neglect of cultivating cultural confidence are prevalent. In response, improvements should be made by enriching teaching content with local cultural integration, updating teaching methods to create culturally interactive classrooms, and enhancing teaching evaluation to highlight the orientation toward cultural confidence. These approaches aim to improve the outcomes of college English teaching and cultivate students’ cultural confidence and intercultural communication competence.