Abstract One of the long-term aims European Union is to incorporate intercultural education into lessons in foreign languages. However, studies have shown that teachers languages often do not know what teaching involves and are themselves interculturally competent. The aim an elective course Intercultural training a teacher study program develop students’ communicative competences (ICC) teach t...

While intercultural communicative competence has gained considerable attention in teachers’ professional development, studies have underestimated the contributions from teacher candidates. The current study intends to explain whether demographic variables of gender, year, bi/multilingualism, living another city, and abroad experience a predictive power on competence. Several multiple regression...

In today’s internationalized learning environment, intercultural communicative competence is deemed insufficient for students. Academic mobility presents challenges and opportunities due to language, culture, background differences. The number of international students in Ukrainian universities increasing. efficacy project-based foreign language acquisition recognized incorporated into the Engl...

studies in cognitive linguistics have highlighted the importance of metaphors for language teaching. metaphoric competence, as an important aspect of intelligence, can contribute to the learning of languages. most textbooks in esl/efl avoid the issue of figurative language and concentrate only on the denotative aspects of language. this article reports a study conducted at the islamic azad univ...

In today’s globalised world, the development of Intercultural Communicative Competence is at forefront English Language Teaching, since it enhances students’ effective language learning as well encourages them to gain a better and broader understanding not only their own but also world around them. However, literature review on this topic quite limited regards early learning. Therefore, aim sys...