Abstract
The process of internationalization requires people to have higher intercultural communicative competence, which refers to a person's ability to successfully communicate in different cultural environments. It consists of cognition, emotion, and behavior. The study of intercultural sensitivity actually focuses on the emotional factor in intercultural communication competence. Based on the concept of intercultural sensitivity and English teaching practice, this article intends to contribute a little to the intercultural communication teaching and relevant study by analyzing the current level of intercultural sensitivity of junior high school students and interviewing English teachers about the implementation of intercultural teaching strategies.
  
Highlights
In the context of globalization, more and more local enterprises will participate in the international division of labor and international cooperation
In 2014, Qu Nini and Dou Qin conducted Chen & Starosta intercultural sensitivity scale and self-designed cross-cultural communicative competence test questionnaire respectively on foreign language learners of the Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University of Science and Technology, the results showed that the relationship between the intercultural sensitivity and intercultural communicative competence is more close
In view of this, based on the concept of intercultural sensitivity, this study investigated a total of 89 foreign junior high school students in China and 18 TCSL teachers of an international school in Nanchang
Summary
In the context of globalization, more and more local enterprises will participate in the international division of labor and international cooperation. The increasing frequency of intercultural exchanges puts forward higher requirements on school English teaching. On the basis of improving students’ English proficiency, foreign language teaching needs to cultivate students' intercultural communication ability to deal with the influence of various emotional factors in intercultural communication. Intercultural sensitivity is the essential factor of intercultural communication. By holding the correct cognition and emotional orientation to cultural shock can we effectively respond to cultural shock and smoothly carry out intercultural communication
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