A Research on Intercultural Communication Competence of Students from Sino-Foreign Universities

With the continuous development of economic globalization and China’s reform and opening up, Chinese-foreign cooperation in school administration is a new model in the reform of higher education in China, and it is of significant relevance to improving students’ intercultural communication competence as well as cultivating talents that society urgently requires. In light of this, this study takes the senior undergraduates of XJ University, a Sino-British university as the research subject, assesses students’ intercultural communication competence with a self-developed six- dimensional framework inventory based on the Knowing-Doing model, and analyzes the unresolved issues and influencing factors in quality cultivation in Sino-foreign cooperative education programs from the perspectives of schools and teachers. The study hopes to provide effective countermeasures for the effective development of students’ intercultural communicative competence.

Keywords: Sino-Foreign Universities, Intercultural Communication Competence, Globalization, Knowing-Doing Model