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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2026.01.002
Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China
This study investigates how to pedagogically integrate ideological education with competency development in the Intercultural Communication course, a challenge arising from China’s dual reform contexts of the New Liberal Arts initiative and the national curriculum ideology policy. As global interactions intensify, cultivating foreign language professionals who possess both firm cultural confidence and sophisticated intercultural competence have become a critical educational imperative. This exploratory study investigates how a three-dimensional “Value-Knowledge-Competency” framework can guide the redesign of course content, task design, and assessment to achieve organic fusion. Drawing on qualitative data from a case study, it analyzes specific implementation pathways, synthesizes teacher and student feedback, and discusses the resultant challenges and broader implications for foreign language curriculum reform. The findings suggest that such an integrated approach can effectively synergize value guidance with skill cultivation, though its success hinges on overcoming issues related to pedagogical naturalness, resource allocation, and standardized evaluation.
New Liberal Arts, ideological-political education, Intercultural Communication, teaching practice, integrated framework
WU Yuan. Integrating Ideological Education With Competency Cultivation: Teaching Practices for an Intercultural Communication Course Under the New Liberal Arts Background. Sino-US English Teaching, Jan.-Feb. 2026, Vol. 23, No. 1-2, 10-16. doi:10.17265/1539-8072/2026.01.002
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