Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence in Foreign Language Classrooms: A study of EFL learners in China

Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) has been accentuated with the wave of globalization. Universities in China have highlighted ICC language classrooms. Following Byram’s (1997) model (including knowledge, skills, and attitudes), this study focuses on efficacy explicit instruction developing among EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners classrooms China, to discover how development is related English proficiency. This research, therefore, two purposes: (1) use mix quantitative qualitative methods assess including questionnaires through self others after instruction. And (2) investigate relationship between The results show that effective raising students’ ICC, especially knowledge proficiency significantly better acquisition ICC. In order promote learners’ based mentioned results, some can be adopted: refine intercultural content, manifest teaching objectives, improve involvers’ initiatives implement scientific evaluation.