International Journal of Education

Against the strategic backdrop of enhancing the global outreach of Chinese culture and strengthening national international communication capacity, the English majors in colleges and universities undertake the important mission of cultivating high-quality talents for international publicity and telling Chinese stories well. Current English talent training in domestic colleges and universities has achieved remarkable results in cultivating students ’core language skills and basic humanistic literacy, while there is still room for improvement in the targeted cultivation of international publicity competence: students’ awareness of international publicity discourse and ability of narrating China need to be further enhanced, their cross-cultural communication and cultural interpretation ability require continuous improvement, and the integration of classroom teaching and practical international publicity practice needs to be deepened. The above gaps make students ’ overall international publicity competence not fully meet the needs of national strategy. To address these gaps, the English Department at the School of Foreign Languages, Dalian Minzu University, has built a phased and progressive international publicity competence training model centered on the Understanding Contemporary China series courses since 2022. Three core courses are offered, namely Reading and Writing China ’ s Stories, Narrating and Communicating China’s Stories, and Translating China’ s Stories. Combined with diverse practical activities and an integrated competition-teaching model, the program has systematically improved students ’ Chinese narrative ability, discourse expression ability, cultural communication literacy and cross-cultural practical application ability. Practice has proved that this training model effectively supplements the targeted training shortcomings in current teaching and achieves sound effects. It can provide practical references for international publicity talent training in college English majors nationwide, and further boost the global dissemination of Chinese culture.

English majors; International communication talents; Cultivation model