Intercultural Communicative Competence and Individual Differences

✍ Scribed by Judit Dombi

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 203
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents a concise critical overview of the literature on intercultural communicative competence (ICC) and offers insights into research on this concept. As a novel contribution to the field, the book frames ICC in relation to other learner variables, such as motivation, willingness to communicate, communication apprehension, and self-perceived communication competence. Based on empirical data, the study proposes and tests a model of English majors ICC interacting with individual differences related to L2 communication. The findings highlight that students beliefs about their own performance, their apprehension from communication situations and their language learning motivation were successfully integrated into a new model of intercultural communicative competence as understood in an interactional EFL context.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication
Table of Contents
List of abbreviations, tables, figures and appendices
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: An overview of the book
2. Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) and individual differences in second language (L2) communication
3. Research design and methodology
4. Advanced EFL learners’ ICC in relation to ID variables
5. Conclusions, pedagogical implications, limitations, and the way forward
References
Appendices
Appendix A – Item pool
Appendix B – Pilot Questionnaire (PQ) 2016
Appendix C – Final Questionnaire (FQ) 2016
Appendix D – Possible modifications of the instrument