摘要：It is a universal consensus that language is a part of a certain culture and the acquisition of a foreign language is also the acquisition of a foreign culture. The study of communicative competence has recieved increasingly more attentions in the field of English teaching and learning, and a great deal has been discovered about the cultural teaching and communicative competence. This dissertation aims at prasenting a brief analysis of how we cultivate college learners’ communicative through the way of cultural teaching. Firstly, the theoretical issues on culture and communicative competence are presented. An experimental study is conducted and analyzed in the second part. And pedagogical implications of cultural teaching is made accordingly. The integration of cultural teaching into the practice of English teaching as a foreign language acquisition is proved to be an effective way to cultivate college learners’ communicative competence
关键词：Integration; Cultural teaching; Communicative competence
