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Under the background of development of Hainan Free Trade Zone (port) to meet its demand of English language talents with good intercultural communication competence, an empirical study is conducted to evaluate vocational college students’ communicative competence of intercultural communication. The results indicate that among the five factors of communicative competence of intercultural communication, students’ listening competence is the highest, followed successively by oral competence, strategic competence, sociolinguistic competence, discourse competence. The analytical results show that each factor among the five factors are positively correlated with the other four factors. Moreover, students’ scores in college English Test (Grade A) have a positive correlation with their oral English competence, discourse competence and sociolinguistic competence, respectively.
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R. X. thanks the Administration Office of Hainan Province Education Science Planning Leading Group for their support in the research project “The Research on Approach Exploration and Strategies for All People Learning Foreign Language in Hainan Free Trade Zone” (QJC20191011).
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Ren, D., Xian, D. (2021). Study on Vocational College Students’ Communicative Competence of Intercultural Communication. In: Zeng, J., Qin, P., Jing, W., Song, X., Lu, Z. (eds) Data Science. ICPCSEE 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1452. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5943-0_36
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