DEVELOPING INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE PROFICIENCY IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LESSONS

Abstract

Annotation. In the globalized world of today, mutual understanding and
intercultural competencies are crucial because they help us overcome prejudice,
discrimination, and misunderstandings between people from various cultural
backgrounds. The development of intercultural communicative competencies (ICC) in
English language education enables students to comprehend and interact effectively
with speakers of the target language cultures. Learning ICC is a challenging process
that calls for a fresh approach not found in conventional language instruction. Also, it
might be challenging for teachers to relate to and use intercultural features of the target
language. Although the development of ICC for students is stressed in all curriculum
texts, the guidelines are frequently simply broad and do not offer teachers any concrete
advice.