Intercultural Competence in Teaching Foreign Languages

Abstract

The article is devoted to search issues on intercultural competence in teaching FL and the use of effective techniques and activities based on developing students’ intercultural communicative competence.

Teaching intercultural communication in English broadens cultural awareness of students; they learn not only language but the traditions and customs of the English people, they become more tolerant of other cultures, they start to respect other people’s beliefs through their intercultural heritage.