On the Cultivation of Cross-cultural Communicative Competence of College English Majors in Ethnic Areas

Abstract

With the deepening of reform and opening-up, the economic and cultural exchanges between our country and other countries in the world are also expanding, which requires us to have stronger cross-cultural communication capabilities. Today in the twenty-fi rst century, the convergence of the world is becoming more and more evident, especially in the context of the continuous development of means of transport and the widespread use of the internet, as people from diff erent countries, races and nationalities become more and more close to each other, cross-cultural communication has become an important feature of this era.
How to adapt to the needs of the development of English education in the new era, improve students’ international thinking, international vision and cross-cultural exchange level, is the urgent problem to be solved in college English education in an ethnic area of our country. Based on the cultivation and education of cross-cultural communicative competence, this paper makes a survey of 20 teachers and 169 students of college English major in an ethnic minority area by means of a questionnaire, this paper also analyzes the current situation of intercultural communicative competence education in universities, and probes into the intercultural communicative competence in universities.