Cultivation of Students’ Intercultural Communication Competence Based on Situational Teaching Method in the Context of Key Competence

Abstract

At the beginning of the 21st century, the European Union, in response to the wave of globalisation and the challenges of a knowledge-based economy, has vigorously promoted a lifelong learning strategy in the field of education and training, and has proposed key competence. The importance of intercultural communication has become increasingly evident in the process of globalization. English language teaching plays an important role in facilitating students’ intercultural communication skills. In English classroom teaching, we should not only attach significance to the language knowledge, but also integrate cultural concepts into English teaching and learning, so that students can perceive and experience the differences between Chinese and Western cultural practices. Situational teaching method is a lively and interesting method that integrates knowledge with context and can provide methodological guidance and implications for the cultivation of intercultural communication competence of high school students. This paper attempts to combine situational teaching method and intercultural communication skills development, and to investigate the effect of situational teaching method on the development of intercultural communication skills of high school students, so as to provide an effective method for the development of intercultural communication competence of high school students.