A Study of Intercultural Competence under CLIL with the Assistance of E-learning—A Case Study of English Education of Chinese Culture

The COVID-19 has ushered the world into the post-epidemic era and has also brought challenges and opportunities to education. What educators must do now is not only integrating Electronic Learning with offline teaching, but also finding a teaching method that can build intercultural knowledge and understanding, as well as cultivating intercultural communication skills, which CLIL pedagogy will do. To improve students’ intercultural ability under CLIL and cultivate their intercultural competence with international vision and Chinese feelings, offline learning should be combined with electronic learning. The theoretical foundation for this study is Coyle’s definition of CLIL, as well as Dai and Chen’s mode of intercultural competence. The research objects will be students in English Education of Chinese Culture in Guangzhou Xinhua University. With a mixed research method combining quantitative and qualitative research, this paper explores theoretically how CLIL can be used to improve intercultural competence in China and how to design the class of English Education of Chinese Culture under CLIL for a better development of students’ intercultural competence with Electronic Learning.