DEVELOPING INTERCULTURAL AWARENESS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

Abstract

Annotation: The quantitative results show that although lecturers are aware of 
the  importance  of  integrating  both  home  and  target  culture  into  the  classes,  and 
developing learners‘ interactional skills, intercultural communicative competence and 
intercultural sensitivity, they are not sure about how to put intercultural learning into 
practice  for  EFL  classroom  tasks  and  activities.  Accordingly,  the  results  of  the 
interview present the problems that prevent teaching about intercultural awareness and 
reveal that lecturers need guidance and training to practice confidently intercultural 
competence teaching in the classroom, especially in terms of assessment methods as 
they do not have a clear idea about the assessment and evaluation methods to apply 
with intercultural competence.