This forum examines issues of intercultural competence and language education, discussing the extent to which courses provide students with which...

The formal study of intercultural communication is generally associated with the publication of Edward Hall’s “The Silent Language” in 1959, where the author showed how culture is critical to understanding intercultural communication. After millennia of research, intercultural communication challenges today are global and by that it is meant that intercultural communication is present in every ...

This paper aims at a comprehensive review of the growing body of research in L2 pragmatic acquisition, including both theoretical discussions and empirical studies to date. To this end, the paper deals with a number of issues which are grouped into four broad categories: the essential constituents of pragmatic competence, models of pragmatic development, major processes of pragmatic competence,...

This article is devoted to the assessment of intercultural communicative competence students in context multilingualism. The relevance research due integrative processes that create a holistic scientific and educational space our country, as well form need for versatile educated professionals who are able participate communication. For effective communication representatives various cultures, t...

Indonesian Language Course is a lesson that develops students' ability to speak properly and correctly, because mastery of can be used as measure one's nationalism an nation. The language course also aims develop abilities in organizing ideas or concepts communicated other parties so there continuous interaction between results effective knowledge transfer management process. One these integrat...

This article describes an action research experience carried out in an advanced English as a foreign language classroom of the language program at a university in Bogotá, Colombia, in 2010. The study proposes the inclusion of authentic literary texts in the English as a foreign language classroom through the implementation of four constructivist approaches as a means to develop intercul-tural c...