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Exploring teachers' beliefs regarding the concepts of culture and intercultural communicative competence in EFL Palestinian university context: A case study.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Exploring teachers' beliefs regarding the concepts of culture and intercultural communicative competence in EFL Palestinian university context: A case study./
Author:	Abu Alyan, Abdrabu.
Description:	261 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-10, Section: A, page: 3691.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-10A.
Subject:	Education policy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3461969
ISBN:	9781124766133

Exploring teachers' beliefs regarding the concepts of culture and intercultural communicative competence in EFL Palestinian university context: A case study.
Abu Alyan, Abdrabu.

Exploring teachers' beliefs regarding the concepts of culture and intercultural communicative competence in EFL Palestinian university context: A case study. - 261 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-10, Section: A, page: 3691.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2011.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This study explores Palestinian university teachers' beliefs regarding the concepts of culture and intercultural communicative competence (ICC) and the impact of their perception on classroom teaching practices. The study argues that in the age of globalization, spread of English as a lingua franca, and growing opportunities of intercultural communication, the focus on linguistic competence or literary competence may not be adequate to enable Palestinian university students to use English communicatively and interculturally. Further, the current objectives of teaching English as a foreign language (EFL), which seem to exclude the cultural/intercultural dimension, can be expanded through integrating ICC into English language classes.

ISBN: 9781124766133Subjects--Topical Terms:

2191387
Education policy.

Exploring teachers' beliefs regarding the concepts of culture and intercultural communicative competence in EFL Palestinian university context: A case study.
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