The strategic plan for the construction of new liberal arts elucidates the trajectory of reconstructing the knowledge system and innovating the talent cultivation modes for foreign language discipline in the new era.Intercultural communication studies is dedicated to investigating the mechanisms underlying interaction,coexistence and cooperation among individuals and groups from diverse cultures.The integration of intercultural communication studies into foreign language discipline is a natural and logical process,which will expand the research breadth and depth of foreign language discipline in examining new phenomena and issues,and lay a systematic theoretical foundation for the cultivation of students'intercultural competence and international communication capability.The key avenues for facilitating the new liberal arts development of foreign language discipline through intercultural communication studies mainly include strengthening intercultural communication theoretical research and application to consolidate the disciplinary base,enriching teachers'pedagogical content knowledge of intercultural communication,and promoting intercultural foreign language education with intercultural competence and international communication capability as the core objectives.
intercultural communication studiesdevelopment of new liberal arts in foreign language disciplinediscipline knowledge systemtalent cultivation modeintercultural competence