Research on strategies for developing intercultural communicative competence for English majors

Journal: Region - Educational Research and Reviews DOI: 10.32629/rerr.v5i5.1512

Yumei HUANG, Yan WANG

School of Foreign Languages, Gansu University of Political Science and Law

Abstract

Nowadays, the world needs high-quality talents with multicultural awareness and intercultural communicative competence. English majors have advantages in language. They should adapt to the needs of the times and contribute to the practice of Chinese culture going out and the community of human destiny. It is important for both teachers and English majors to master strategies for intercultural communication. The paper takes foreign language teachers and English majors as the research objects. Quantitative and qualitative methods are adopted to investigate the current level of English majors' intercultural communicative competence and the problems encountered in cultivating students' intercultural communicative competence. Based on the results of the survey, it analyzes and puts forward strategies to improve the intercultural communicative competence of English majors. The results of this paper are instructive for teachers to optimize intercultural communicative teaching and develop intercultural communicative competence for English majors and provide new ideas and methods for future research in related fields.

Keywords

English majors; intercultural communicative competence; strategy research

Funding

This article is the periodic results of key scientific research project of Gansu University of Political Science and Law (No. GZF2019XZDLW21).

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