https://ojs.bbwpublisher.com/index.php/erd <p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Educational Reform and Development (ERD)&nbsp;</em>is a peer-reviewed, open-access international professional academic journal. It aims to reflect the latest achievements of educational reform and development, explore the laws of education, and serve to deepen educational reform and prosper education science. The main readers of this journal are principals, teachers, education administrators, education researchers, and enthusiastic comrades of large, middle and primary schools.&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The journal accepts high quality articles that are solving educational research problems by using a review approach. This may include thematic or methodological reviews, or meta-analyses. The journal does not limit its scope to any age range. The journal invites articles on the broad range of settings in which people learn and are educated (school settings, corporate training, formal or informal settings, etc.).</p> Bio-Byword Scientific Publishing en-US Education Reform and Development 2652-5364 https://ojs.bbwpublisher.com/index.php/erd/article/view/10849 <p>Cultivating students’ intercultural communication competence (ICC) has become an important goal of English Teaching in colleges and universities in China. At present, there are a few problems existing in the cultivation of ICC in the English teaching process at universities, and there is a need to make some reforms in terms of teaching ideologies, curriculum design as well as teaching contents. Cultivating students’ intercultural communication competence should start with the cultivation of their intercultural communication competence awareness, while taking into account the synchronous improvement of knowledge, attitude, and skills. In addition, it is important to pay attention to the impact of ELF (English as a Lingua Franca) on the cultivation of intercultural communication competence. What’s more, modern information and digital technology should be utilized to improve methods of English teaching in colleges and universities to enhance students’ intercultural communication competence effectively.</p> Jiaojiao Meng Copyright (c) 2025 Author(s) 2025-06-30 2025-06-30 7 6 212 217 10.26689/erd.v7i6.10849