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Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) is the ultimate goal of teaching and learning of English as a foreign language (EFL). Content-based English Instruction (CBEI) refers to the teaching of the content or materials of a field in English, enabling students to acquire English while learning specialized knowledge. This study tries to investigate the cultivation of ICC among Master’s graduate students (MGS) in a cultural content-based English course. A questionnaire was distributed to 300 MGS for the survey before and after the CBEI course was conducted. And the results do reveal that CBEI course can increase students ICC in five dimensions, namely, language competence, intercultural knowledge, intercultural attitude, intercultural awareness and intercultural strategy. Classroom observation on the process of teaching was conducted to find out the way it improves the ICC of MGS.
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Wang, Q., Zhou, Q. (2020). An Investigation of Intercultural Communicative Competence Among Master’s Graduate Students of Non-English Major in the Context of Content-Based English Instruction. In: Liu, S., Sun, G., Fu, W. (eds) e-Learning, e-Education, and Online Training. eLEOT 2020. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 339. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63952-5_33
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