Research on the Cultivation Strategies of Cross-cultural Communicative Competence in Junior English Teaching Under the New Curriculum Standard : — A Case Study of Huainan Dongshan Middle School

Huixian Li

doi:10.63313/IJED.9110

Authors

Huixian Li Department of Foreign Language, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200000, China Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63313/IJED.9110

Keywords:

New Curriculum Standards, Junior English Teaching, Cross-Cultural Communicative Competence, Cultivation Strategies

Abstract

As globalization continues to advance, the new curriculum standard raises the bar for developing students’ intercultural communicative competence during junior high school English instruction. Taking Huainan Dongshan Middle School as an example, this study analyzes in-depth the domestic and international research results in the related fields, and uses literature research, questionnaire surveys and other methods to reveal the existing problems in current teaching. Subsequently, cultivation strategies are put forward. These include enhancing teachers’ intercultural awareness, integrating intercultural content into teaching materials, creating communicative scenes, promoting extracurricular learning, and improving the teaching evaluation mechanism. The goal is to improve students’ intercultural communicative competence and promote junior high school English teaching reform to meet the needs of the times.

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