Cultivating Cultural Confidence in College English Teaching from the Perspective of Curriculum-based Ideological and Political Education

Abstract

Within the framework of curriculum-based ideological and political education, college English teaching serves not only as a process of language skill acquisition but also as a critical arena for value guidance and cultural education. Faced with the dominant influence of Western culture in the context of globalization, integrating Chinese cultural elements into English instruction to enhance students' cultural identity and confidence has become an urgent issue. This paper explores pathways for systematically fostering cultural confidence among university students in English classrooms by optimizing teaching content, innovating pedagogical methods, and incorporating comparative studies of Chinese and Western cultures under the perspective of curriculum-based ideological and political education. The study advocates constructing a student-centered teaching model that integrates value cultivation with language learning, guiding students to effectively communicate China's stories in cross-cultural communication, enhancing national consciousness and ethnic pride, and ultimately achieving the fundamental goal of moral education and talent development.