The Relationship between Foreign Literary Work Reading and Intercultural Competence of Chinese College Students

Abstract

This study constructs a scale to investigate Chinese college students' foreign literary work reading situation, and to explore the correlation between foreign literary work reading and six dimensions of intercultural competence. Firstly, the basic situation description of foreign literary work reading and intercultural competence development is conducted by Foreign Literary Work Reading Scale for Chinese College Students and Assessment of Intercultural Competence of Chinese College Students (AIC-CCS), which is proposed by Wu et al (2013) [1]. Then, combined with the Pearson Correlation of SPSS, the correlation analysis is performed and reveals that there is a significant positive relationship between foreign literary work reading and intercultural competence. And it has the greatest effect on knowledge of others, the general effect on intercultural communicative and cognitive skills, and the minimal effect on knowledge of self, attitudes and awareness. This research can provide a theoretical reference for foreign language teaching.