Abstract Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) is an indispensable skill when interacting with people from other cultures, given the clash of perspectives that intercultural encounters may bring about. Being a can be taught and learned, there wide concern for developing ICC through formal education. This involves designing specific training tasks enhance acquisition help virtual exchange...

Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) has been accentuated with the wave of globalization. Universities in China have highlighted ICC language classrooms. Following Byram’s (1997) model (including knowledge, skills, and attitudes), this study focuses on efficacy explicit instruction developing among EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners classrooms China, to discover how developmen...

this study investigated the cognition of 70 tunisian teachers on the place of culture in english education. it showed that tunisian teachers believe that english textbooks and curricular documents are not specific about the cultural dimension of efl. it also revealed that l2 teachers, whose mother culture is distant from that associated with l2, hold ambivalent attitudes towards culture. they a...

increasingly intercultural dimension of communication in the 21st century has brought about challenging aims in efl (english as a foreign language) pedagogy, such as ascertaining the enhancement of the learners' intercultural awareness and promoting their ability to communicate in intercultural settings. taking the disadvantage of efl environment in terms of intercultural input into account, co...

The article aims to explain what kind of intercultural communication competence is needed in border crossing labor markets. The experiences of international higher education students and information and communications technology (ICT) experts are analyzed in different Finnish working and educational environments. We seek answers to the following questions: How are language and communicative abi...

Despite the increasing attention paid to developing intercultural communicative competence (ICC) of foreign language learners in recent years among linguistic scholars and practitioners, few studies could be found concerning ICC assessment, especially ways in which different dimensions of ICC should be assessed. The present study aims to explore the status quo of ICC assessment in English progr...

As an important focus of modern language education, intercultural language learning reflects greater awareness of the inseparability of language and culture and the need for providing the learners with materials concerning teaching intercultural communication to enhance learners’ intercultural competence in an increasingly multicultural world. Proper development of a learners’ understanding of ...

There is a tendency to think of World Englishes in the noun form; as products rather than as processes (implying that one receives both ready-made, controlling the development of neither). Conceptualising World Englishes as processes in which one can participate as an agent raises the question of what skills are needed in their active construction. The author will argue that since culture resid...