Cultivating and Exploring Students' Intercultural Communication Skills in Middle School English Teaching under the Perspective of Cultural Confidence

Abstract

The English Curriculum Standards for Compulsory Education (2022 Edition) (from now on referred to as "the new standards") mentions students' intercultural communication many times in the curriculum objectives. Under the requirements of the new standards, teachers should pay attention to cultivating students' intercultural communication awareness and ability. In the era of economic globalization, diversified modes of thinking, and information networking, the practice and exploration of cultural self-confidence have become vital prerequisites for cultivating students' cross-cultural communicative competence. Therefore, this paper explores the enhancement and development of junior high school students' intercultural communicative competence from the aspects of the meaning of intercultural communicative competence, the problems and challenges encountered in cultivating students' intercultural communication, the current situation of the cultivation of junior high school students' intercultural communicative competence, the necessity of improving junior high school students' intercultural communicative competence, the principles of the cultivation of junior high school students'  intercultural communicative competence, as well as the strategies of the cultivation of junior high school students' intercultural communicative competence.