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The Representation and Effectiveness of Intercultural Communicative Competence in Iranian High School ELT Textbooks | ||
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies | ||
دوره 16، شماره 2، دی 2024، صفحه 89-106 اصل مقاله (514.48 K) | ||
نوع مقاله: Research Paper | ||
شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22111/ijals.2024.47847.2421 | ||
نویسندگان | ||
Abbas Ali Rezaee* ؛ Mohammadhosein Norouzi؛ Elahe Saleh | ||
Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran | ||
چکیده | ||
English as a foreign language (EFL) textbooks play a significant role in these cultural exchanges. On the other hand, English is known as an international language and acquiring a good Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) in EFL classes is considered as one of the primary goals. The present research reports a qualitative study on firstly, the representation of the elements of intercultural competence in Iranian EFL high school textbooks (Prospect Series) and secondly, the potentiality of the textbooks to develop students’ ICC. To this end, an in-depth content analysis of Prospect 1, Prospect 2, and Prospect 3 was done based on Byram’s (1997) model. Next, a group of 300 Iranian high school students was provided with the AIC questionnaire (Fantini, 2009a, p. 196) to examine the extent to which EFL lessons in Iranian high-school English textbooks significantly develop learners’ intercultural competence. The results of the statistical analyses revealed that the cultural topics covered in Prospect Series have little emphasis on developing students’ ICC, and also the dimensions of ICC tasks in the textbooks are distributed unequally. Moreover, Iranian EFL textbooks could not significantly develop learners’ ICC to become aware of cultural differences by being a source of ICC experience. | ||
کلیدواژهها | ||
culture representation؛ English textbooks؛ intercultural communicative competence؛ English as a foreign language؛ textbook analysis | ||
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