As is known to all, culture is a very complex social phenomenon, and every country has its own unique culture. Culture also contains the elements of language. In the process of learning a language, if we want to understand and use the language correctly, we must understand the culture of the language. Nowadays, the cultural difference between China and the west has become one of the stumbling blocks in college students' English learning process. This paper analyzes the differences between Chinese and Western cultures in communication and the problems existing in the cultivation of students' cross-cultural communication competence in current college English teaching, and puts forward the strategies for the cross-cultural education, aiming at improving the cross-cultural communication competence of contemporary college students and providing references for future relevant studies.

Wang Yingyu. The Cross-cultural Education in College English Language Teaching. Frontiers in Educational Research (2023) Vol. 6, Issue 14: 6-11. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2023.061402.

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