In modern Chinese oral language teaching, the cultivation of cross-cultural communication skills focuses on how to effectively leverage students’ diverse cultural backgrounds and learning networks, as well as how to better address culturally relevant topics in oral language instruction. Based on this, this paper updates the design of Chinese oral language teaching courses, using teaching objectives as a guiding principle to integrate teaching content and resources, and identifies thematic relationships such as “contemporary life,” “science and technology,” and “social values.” A teaching sequence oriented toward cross-cultural communication skills is established: “setting teaching themes – introducing classroom themes – theme-based learning activities – sharing learning outcomes – evaluation and feedback,” thereby achieving the cultivation of cross-cultural communication skills in Chinese oral language teaching courses. Utilizing CAI technology and the wavelet transform algorithm to extract digital resources required for Chinese oral language instruction, after one semester of teaching practice, the cross-cultural communication skills-oriented Chinese oral language instruction class achieved significant improvements in all question types, including multiple-choice questions, with an average score of 86.59 ± 9.712, significantly higher than the class using traditional teaching methods. This demonstrates the effectiveness of the cross-cultural communication skills-oriented Chinese oral language instruction approach.
