INTERCULTURAL LANGUAGE TEACHING PRACTICE IN EFL CLASSROOM CHINA-- COLLEGE ENGLISH INSTRUCTION BASED ON BYRAM’S ICC MODEL

This study investigates the application of Byram’s Intercultural Communicative Competence model in university-level EFL instruction, with a case design for reading courses of second-year non-English majors in China. Using a novel educational approach, the study illustrates how Byram’s five components — dispositions, understanding, abilities to interpret/connect, capacities for exploration/engagement, and reflective cultural consciousness — can be applied as effective teaching strategies in practice. Оffers valuable insights for EFL educators seeking to integrate cultural competence development with language acquisition in higher education contexts and provides practical implications for cultivating international talent from a critical cultural perspective in the context of globalization.