A Literature Review of Studies on Students’ Intercultural Communicative Competence in College English Teaching in China

As globalization and cultural pluralism accelerate in the 21st century, China plays an increasingly significant role on the international stage with more frequent cooperation with other foreign countries. Therefore, high-quality as well as internationalized talents are in great demand and it is indispensable for them to have excellent intercultural communicative competence. College English Curriculum Requirements, published in 2010, clearly points out the necessity of cultivating students ’ intercultural communicative competence in the objectives as well as contents of college English teaching. This research is a literature review which summarizes and analyzes researches which study students ’ intercultural communicative competence in college English teaching. With the databases of Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index Journals (CSSCI) and Core Journals (Chinese Core Journals of Beijing University), this paper collected all relevant journal papers and academic degree’s dissertations published on China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) from 2010 to 2022. All collected research papers were summarized and analyzed in terms of three aspects, which were research trend, research methods and research contents.