Culturally Designed Tasks to Enhance EFL Learners’ Intercultural Communicative Competence
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Culture, Intercultural Communicative Competence, Tasks, Narrative ConversationsAbstract
Teaching culture and fostering intercultural communicative competency has received dramatic attention lately as it is the aim of the current study. It is recognized that mere knowledge of culture and the skills required to develop intercultural communicative competency is hardly enough. Extensive, focused, and organized practice is in order. The study utilizes narrative conversational activities as basis for the tasks to enhance intercultural communicative competence. The population consists of 72 learners evenly divided into 2 groups; group A is randomly chosen to serve as the experimental group. The two-group pretest-posttest design is used in the study for statistical assessment of the hypotheses proposed. The results show efficiency of the procedures adopted as the statistical treatment shows a significant improvement in ICC.
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