| Acknowledgements | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-17页 |
| 1.1 Research Background | 第12-15页 |
| 1.1.1 The Seminar“Reform and Innovation of Teaching English to Majors in View of Diverse Talent — A Look into the Future of China and Its English Language Teaching” | 第12-15页 |
| 1.1.2 Research about intercultural communicative competence of English major students in China | 第15页 |
| 1.2 Research questions | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Two Intercultural Teaching Theories for Language Education | 第17-35页 |
| 2.1 The concept of intercultural communicative competence | 第17-20页 |
| 2.1.1 Models of ICC proposed by foreign scholars | 第17-20页 |
| 2.1.1.1 Intercultural communicative competence model of Bennett | 第18页 |
| 2.1.1.2 Intercultural communicative competence model of Kim and Chen | 第18-19页 |
| 2.1.1.3 Intercultural communicative competence framework proposed by Fantini | 第19-20页 |
| 2.2 The intercultural communicative competence framework proposed by Byram | 第20-26页 |
| 2.2.1 The goal of foreign language education | 第20-22页 |
| 2.2.2 Communicative competence | 第22-23页 |
| 2.2.3 Intercultural competence framework | 第23-26页 |
| 2.2.3.1 Attitudes | 第23-24页 |
| 2.2.3.2 Knowledge | 第24-25页 |
| 2.2.3.3 Skills of interpreting and relating | 第25页 |
| 2.2.3.4 Skills of discovery and/or interaction | 第25-26页 |
| 2.2.4 Comments upon the framework | 第26页 |
| 2.3 Research about ICC training for English major | 第26-32页 |
| 2.3.1 Theoretical exploration | 第27-28页 |
| 2.3.2 Competence assessment | 第28-29页 |
| 2.3.3 Course offering and arranging | 第29-32页 |
| 2.3.3.1 International talents training programme | 第29-31页 |
| 2.3.3.2 The humanity education in intercultural teaching curriculum | 第31-32页 |
| 2.4 The role of teachers | 第32-33页 |
| 2.5 Summary | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter Three Research Design | 第35-40页 |
| 3.1 Research methods | 第35页 |
| 3.2 Measuring of research | 第35-40页 |
| 3.2.1 The scale used in the investigation | 第36页 |
| 3.2.2 Questionnaire design | 第36-37页 |
| 3.2.3 Interview | 第37-38页 |
| 3.2.4 The respondents of the scale and questionnaire | 第38-39页 |
| 3.2.5 Data collecting and analysis | 第39-40页 |
| Chapter Four Result of the Research | 第40-72页 |
| 4.1 Basic information of the students | 第40-42页 |
| 4.2 Perception of ICC from the scale | 第42-57页 |
| 4.2.1 Linguistic competence | 第42-43页 |
| 4.2.2 Sociolinguistic competence | 第43-44页 |
| 4.2.3 Discourse competence | 第44-45页 |
| 4.2.4 Strategic competence | 第45-46页 |
| 4.2.5 Intercultural knowledge | 第46-47页 |
| 4.2.6 Intercultural attitudes | 第47-48页 |
| 4.2.7 Intercultural awareness | 第48-52页 |
| 4.2.8 Intercultural skills | 第52-57页 |
| 4.3 Perception and practice of ICC training from questionnaire | 第57-62页 |
| 4.3.1 The curriculum to train communicative competence | 第57-59页 |
| 4.3.2 The curriculum of intercultural competence | 第59-62页 |
| 4.4 International talents training and humanity education | 第62-67页 |
| 4.4.1 International talents training | 第62-64页 |
| 4.4.2 Humanity education | 第64-65页 |
| 4.4.3 The objective of intercultural communication | 第65-67页 |
| 4.5 Interview with the teacher | 第67-71页 |
| 4.5.1 The communicative competence training | 第67-68页 |
| 4.5.2 The intercultural competence training | 第68-69页 |
| 4.5.3 Curriculum offering and arranging in school | 第69-70页 |
| 4.5.4 International talents training and humanity education | 第70-71页 |
| 4.6 Summary | 第71-72页 |
| Chapter Five Reflections and Suggestions | 第72-79页 |
| 5.1 The main points of investigation result | 第72-75页 |
| 5.1.1 Clear distinctions between the“direct”and“indirect”aspects of intercultural communicative competence dimensions | 第72-73页 |
| 5.1.2 The unbalance effects of courses offering and arranging | 第73-74页 |
| 5.1.3 The limited size of professional team | 第74-75页 |
| 5.2 Implication of the study | 第75-77页 |
| 5.2.1 The demands to adjust curriculum design | 第75-76页 |
| 5.2.2 The construction of teacher team | 第76-77页 |
| 5.2.3 The effects of testing system | 第77页 |
| 5.3 Limitations of the research and future works | 第77-79页 |
| Chapter six Conclusions | 第79-82页 |
| Bibliography | 第82-88页 |
| Appendix 1 The scale and questionnaire | 第88-93页 |
| Appendix 2 Interview structure | 第93-94页 |
