Author(s)

Meng Yuan ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Department of Basic Education, Shanxi Industrial Management School, Taiyuan, China

Corresponding Author

Meng Yuan

ABSTRACT

Intercultural Communication Competence is an important part of core literacy in new curriculum standard. This study used a scale that investigated students’ perceptions of Intercultural Communication Competence in Chinese secondary vocational education. Participants included 101 students from a vocational school in Shanxi province in China. The results revealed that the attitudes of student Intercultural Communication Competence were moderation and inclusiveness. Students showed an open attitude towards intercultural communication in some aspects. Major and gender did not have significantly different in intercultural communication. The findings of the study could help educators identify Intercultural Communication Competence in professional development workshops in secondary vocational education and recommend that schools and teachers adopt various methods to push pedagogy.

KEYWORDS

Intercultural Communication Competence, Secondary Vocational Education, Students

CITE THIS PAPER

Meng Yuan, Intercultural Communication Competence of Students in Secondary Vocational Education. Advances in Vocational and Technical Education (2022) Vol. 4: 1-5. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/avte.2022.040501.

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