data analysis -- Intercultural comp -- EMI exp -- Eng.spv

There is a medium correlation between the teachers’ English proficiency and their intercultural competence. In addition, the teachers’ English proficiency, compared with their teaching experience, contributed much more to the variance of their intercultural competence. Among the five components of intercultural competence (Chen and Starosta2000), interaction engagement and interaction confidence had stronger correlation with the teachers’ English proficiency. ANOVA test results showed that intercultural competence increases with the teachers’ EMI teaching experience, reaching the highest when it gets to 10 years, and then decreases; however, the teachers’ English proficiency increases continuously.</p