Abstract
Language is the carrier of culture, learning a language is bound to master the related culture. Intercultural sensitivity is the core competence of the emotional part of cross-cultural communicative competence. The current era of big data has brought great changes to people's lives and work. While bringing opportunities to school teaching, it also brings challenges. Based on the analysis of the connotation of big data and the reasons for its application in English teaching, combined with the shortcomings of traditional teaching, this article puts forward some effective measures to improve the intercultural sensitivity in English teaching by using big data, so as to improve the application level of big data technology in English teaching.