Author(s)

Anan Zhou ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Institute of Foreign Languages and Literature, Hunan Institute of Science and Technology, Yueyang, 414000, China

Corresponding Author

Anan Zhou

ABSTRACT

With the deepening of educational informatization, the combination of E-Learning (digital or online learning) and traditional classroom teaching in the form of blended learning has been widely applied. The cultivation of Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) is one of the important goals of college English education. This paper focuses on the cultivation of ICC through MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) in teaching. It begins by reviewing the research and definition of ICC by scholars both domestically and internationally. Subsequently, it provides an overview of the current status and trends of domestic intercultural teaching based on MOOCs, summarizing achievements, identifying shortcomings, and aiming to provide insights for college English intercultural teaching and research.

KEYWORDS

MOOCs based blended teaching, intercultural teaching, college English

CITE THIS PAPER

Anan Zhou, Research on MOOCs Based Intercultural Teaching in College English. Transactions on Comparative Education (2024) Vol. 6: 116-120. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/trance.2024.060217.

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