Positive social interaction is a crucial facet in maintaining harmonious state among multicultural society Malaysia. There no doubt that Malaysians play an important role reducing conflict ethnics, fostering unity their own ethnicity and others as well. Understanding accepting the differences are vitals intercultural integration process. Huge responsibility being placed on universities to ensur...

The development of a "global village" strongly demands the ability of intercultural sensitivity between people for survival in the 21st century. Due to current lack of study on the subject, this paper aims to: (1) provide a conceptualization of intercultural sensitivity; (2) specify the role intercultural sensitivity plays in intercultural training programs; (3) delineate the components of inte...

language and culture are now deemed to be co-constitutive; hence english language teaching (elt) textbooks should incorporate cultural aspects and promote intercultural competence. however, careful decisions should be made as regards to the cultural content of materials and the ways in which culture is represented. this study was an attempt to deconstruct the patterns of cultural representation...

The current study attempted to cast light on the status quo of Iranian EFL teachers' perceptions of ICC. It further attempted to see if their experience would influence their conceptualizations of ICC. To this end, a total of 100 EFL teachers were asked to complete a questionnaire survey adapted from Han & Song's (2011) study. The results of both quantitative and qualitative analysis revealed a...

In all educational contexts, technological developments and changes in pedagogical theory mean that any picture of current practice and attitudes must be dynamic. In many countries, the learning outcomes of foreign language courses now include intercultural communicative competence (ICC), although the precise model for teaching ICC varies even across the English-speaking world. Internet-mediate...

Because intercultural communicative competence has a tremendous influence on the cultural component of language teaching/ learning, this article is concise literature review competence. In fact, curricula designers have put strong emphasis definitions and implementations communication to provide tasks that enhance learners’ cross-cultural competences. It worth mentioning not new concept in fiel...