Abstract
Language, as the crystallization of culture, under the background of multiculturalism, the cultivation of intercultural consciousness in college English teaching has become an important task in English teaching, and it is also an important issue whether English teaching can adapt to the development of the times and meet the needs of talents. This paper explores the ways of cultivating intercultural consciousness in college English teaching in the context of multiculturalism from the perspectives of teachers' own ideas and concepts, the design of classroom teaching, the organization of teaching activities, the improvement and application of teaching techniques, the management of classroom teaching, and the individual level of students, so as to be helpful to English teaching in the new era.