Research Article
Indonesian EFL Teachers’ Intercultural Communicative Competence
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.9-10-2021.2319693, author={Yulia Hapsari and Ratna Cahya Sari and Nenden Sri Lengkanawati}, title={Indonesian EFL Teachers’ Intercultural Communicative Competence}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language, Literature, Education and Culture, ICOLLEC 2021, 9-10 October 2021, Malang, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICOLLEC}, year={2022}, month={7}, keywords={world englishes intercultural communicative competence}, doi={10.4108/eai.9-10-2021.2319693} }- Yulia Hapsari
Ratna Cahya Sari
Nenden Sri Lengkanawati
Year: 2022
Indonesian EFL Teachers’ Intercultural Communicative Competence
ICOLLEC
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.9-10-2021.2319693
Abstract
Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) is one amongst the influential prerequisites to individuals living in multicultural societies by allowing us to prevent issues brought about by diverse cultural backgrounds and to effectively and properly interface with others. This research focused on investigating Indonesian EFL teachers' Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) as their knowledge and belief about other cultures is crucial to promote students' ICC. Using a quantitative method by employing an on-line questionnaire, the result of this study explained that moderate levels of ICC were possessed by the participants. Mean score of attitudes dimension was found high while the mean scores of knowledge, skills, and awareness dimension were respectively moderate with knowledge dimension was the lowest. It was also revealed that 68% of the respondents have never experienced any cross-cultural encounter with people from abroad. These findings and the fact that Indonesia is a multicultural country potentially contribute to the rank scores of each dimension underlying their ICC. As regards, this research suggested that in classroom activities, Indonesian EFL teachers apply culturally responsive teaching, introduce intercultural teaching and English varieties, as well as having a postmodern perspective in English teaching.