Xiya Wang, Feng Yang
Amid the comprehensive advancement of ideological and political education in curriculum, college English teaching undertakes the dual mission of cultivating linguistic competence and guiding values. As an important component of excellent traditional Chinese culture, Lingnan culture boasts the spiritual traits of openness and inclusiveness, pragmatism and innovation, and the courage to be a pioneer, which provides abundant local cultural resources for the ideological and political education in college English curriculum. This paper mainly explores the significance, practical problems and specific implementation paths of integrating Lingnan culture into the ideological and political education in college English curriculum. It aims to realize the in-depth integration of language teaching and cultural education by reconstructing teaching contents, innovating teaching methods, optimizing evaluation mechanisms, improving teachers’ professional quality and strengthening resource development, thereby enhancing students’ cultural confidence and patriotism, and providing a referential practical model for the construction of ideological and political education of English courses in local universities.