The Influence of Foreign Songs Appreciation on College Students' Intercultural Competence

Abstract

This paper constructed a scale to investigate the situation of Chinese college students’ foreign songs appreciation based on the basic types of foreign songs, and to explore the relationship between foreign songs appreciation and Chinese college students’ intercultural competence. By means of giving out questionnaire, the information related to 712 college students was collected. All data from questionnaire were processed in SPSS. By using the Person Correlation of SPSS, the results show that there is a positive relationship between foreign songs appreciation and intercultural competence. And foreign songs appreciation has the greatest impact on Chinese college students' foreign cultural knowledge, followed by consciousness, and finally attitude, intercultural communication skills and intercultural cognitive skills. It has little impact on the student's domestic cultural knowledge. This research uses a quantitative method to describe the intercultural competence of Chinese college students, which is more reliable.