Author(s)

Zhuolun Chen

Corresponding Author

Zhuolun Chen

ABSTRACT

College English teaching is both instrumental and humanistic. On one hand, the instrumentality of college English teaching refers to the improvement of students' Basic English abilities of listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating, as well as their abilities of English for Special Purposes. On the other hand, the humanity of college English teaching refers to the intercultural education for students to know and correctly understand the differences between different cultures. This paper here is going to discuss the necessity and feasibility of integrating cultural self-confidence into the process of English teaching from the perspectives of teachers, students and course set-up systems. Only when both teachers and students have strong cultural self-confidence, can college English teaching play a better role in talents cultivation, and thus students can truly get proper and effective communication skills and abilities to inherit and spread Chinese culture, so as to meet the needs for future development and foreign exchanges.

KEYWORDS

Cultural self-confidence; college English teaching