Research Article

THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCY THROUGH ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING

ABSTRACT

Culture shows the life people live and as of this fact, we see that the term culture refers to beliefs, ideas, values, and knowledge of one nation. On the other side, we also can say that culture and language are bonded together and they cannot be separated when learning takes place as it develops standard communication skills. Otherwise, if languages are taught without their cultures, students are only the visitors of the language who aren’t familiar in detail about the origin of a particular language. Therefore, one of the strategies to learn English as a foreign language is if we see it through its culture and acquire this learning through the technique of competency base learning as it helps students develop their skills in their pace and provides students with useful models of authentic use of the language in the classroom and online. The purpose of this study is to discover the possibilities of learning English for the development of intercultural competence and to distinguish successful teaching methods for the development of this competence in higher education and also to show that students need to acquire these competencies, so they can have the most effective communication with individuals from the cultures of English-speaking countries.

Keywords

ELL EFL intercultural differences cultural value