Author(s)

Lizhen Wang

Corresponding Author

Lizhen Wang

Abstract

It is an important goal of the college curricular reformation to train students’ intercultural communicative competences, is the inevitable requirement of quality education, language and culture, language teaching and culture teaching are closely related. At present, globalization has brought the cultural collisions, which are becoming fiercer, between different countries; it makes English learning becoming more important, and makes the world becoming more closely linked. Different races, different languages, different complexions and different cultures have brought different learning perspectives. It injects fresh blood into English learning, also lets the language and culture to integrate deeply. Under this background, college English teaching requires the teachers to combine the language and the culture in order to improve the overall abilities of the students. However, how to improve the English abilities of the students, and how to grasp the integration of cultural elements in English teaching so as to cultivate the intercultural communicative competences of students has become some important problems that college teachers need to think about carefully. Starting from the connotation of intercultural communication, the author of this paper gives some suggestions that how to cultivate the intercultural communicative competences of college students.

Keywords

Intercultural Communicative Competence, English Teaching, Teaching Model, Strategy.