On the Strategies and Principles of Cultivating Students’ Intercultural Communication Competence in English Reading Teaching in Senior High school

Abstract

Under the background of globalization, people from different countries are easier and closer to communicate than before. At the same time, education takes an important role in cultivating talents and future elites of country.  Therefore, it is necessary for senior high school English teachers to pay attention to the cultivation of students’ intercultural communication competence in teaching practice. At present, there existing many problems in senior high school English teaching, such as the old educational concept around exam-oriented education, the lack of intercultural communication environment and the lack of awareness of cultural learning among students themselves, resulting in the cultivation of senior high school students’ intercultural communication competence being a mere formality. Based on the above problems, it is imperative to find feasible strategies to foster senior high school students’ intercultural communication competence.