DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE: STRATEGIES AND CHALLENGES

Аннотация

In today’s modern era, interrelationship among diverse nations and globalization are improving day by day. These changes allow developing intercultural communicative competence to become an essential purpose in language education. This study intends to examine the pedagogical approaches which help to foster students’ intercultural communicative competence in higher education and also to identify difficulties come across by learners. To carry out the study, a mixed-methods approach has been used by combining both quantitative and qualitative research methods such as survey questionnaires and interviews. The findings of the investigation demonstrate that experiential learning programs, intercultural group projects and exchanges programs can contribute significantly to students’ intercultural communicative competence. Nevertheless, there are several factors which hinder the process of fostering intercultural communicative competence such as language barriers, stereotypes and cultural misunderstandings, institutional limitations. This study can benefit the field of intercultural communicative competence byresearch-based findings. Keywords: intercultural communicative competence, experiential learning, higher education, intercultural communication, global learning, language education, cultural awareness.