Promoting Students' Intercultural Communicative Competence through English Literary Texts: Students' Attitudes and Teachers' Challenges

Autor/inn/en	Bagui, Hayat; Adder, Fatima
Titel	Promoting Students' Intercultural Communicative Competence through English Literary Texts: Students' Attitudes and Teachers' Challenges
Quelle	In: Arab World English Journal, 11 (2020) 2, S.85-93 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bagui, Hayat)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2229-9327
Schlagwörter	Intercultural Communication; Communicative Competence (Languages); English Literature; Student Attitudes; Second Language Learning; English (Second Language); Negative Attitudes; Cultural Awareness; Teacher Role; Language Teachers; Young Adults; Graduate Students; Integrated Curriculum; Foreign Countries; Algeria + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Communicative competence; Languages; Kommunikative Kompetenz; Sprache; Englische literatur; Schülerverhalten; Zweitsprachenerwerb; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Negative Fixierung; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Lehrerrolle; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Ausland; Algerien
Abstract	The focal aim of the current paper is to take an in-depth look at the effect of the English culture on foreign language learners. In this regard, the researchers inquire about how intercultural communication affects English as a foreign language (EFL) students during the process of learning English literary texts carrying aspects of the target culture. This study, thus, endeavours at shedding light on students' attitudes towards some aspects of the English culture when studying literary texts. It also intends at scrutinizing teachers' strategies in teaching culture through literature; referring to their active roles in fostering intercultural awareness and Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) among their learners. To do so, the researchers collected data through a questionnaire addressed to forty first-year Master students of Literature and Civilization in the department of English at Tlemcen University supported by an interview with teachers of literature. The findings revealed that most students exhibit negative attitudes towards some aspects of the English culture when studying literature. Their responses demonstrate that they are unaware and ignore the differences between cultures i.e., they are not culturally competent enough to avoid intercultural clash within various lectures of literature. The results also showed that teachers peacefully attempt to provide the appropriate teaching techniques and strategies to integrate teaching culture through literary texts to foster tolerance and empathy with speakers' target language, identity, and culture. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01