Principles and Strategies for Improving Intercultural Communication Competence of Senior High School English Students Under the Guidance of Core Competence

Abstract

Cultivating students’ intercultural communication competence conforms to the requirement of cultivating their core competence in terms of the New English curriculum standard for senior high school.This paper aims to analyze the principles and propose some effective strategies for improving the intercultural communication competence of students in senior high school on the basis of status quo analysis.The study renders that there are several principles that English teachers can follow in order to cultivate students intercultural communication competence: practical principle, authentic principle, progressive principle, ideological principle and principle of equality. And the study also probes into the strategies in macro and micro perspectives with the hope of improving students’ intercultural communication competence, the strategies containing updating teaching methods; designing teaching plans effectively directed to core competence; encouraging deep learning; comparing different language characteristics; learning about the thinking patterns of other cultural groups and so on.