Portraying Indonesian EFL Teachers’ Perceptions and Teaching Practices on Intercultural Communicative Competence

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10.2991/978-2-38476-038-1_7How to use a DOI?

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Teachers’ perception; teachers’ praxis; ICC

Abstract

Fostering Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) in the EFL milieu has attracted considerable worldwide scholars’ interest. Despite the myriads of literature on ICC in the EFL settings, integrating ICC into EFL instruction is still underexplored in the Indonesian context, especially in the eastern part of Indonesia. To fill the empirical lacuna, the current study seeks to portray Indonesian EFL teachers’ perceptions of ICC and explore how these teachers give culturally laden instruction in their teaching praxis. Six English teachers from private and state-run schools were recruited to participate in this study. Open-ended interviews were made to amass the data. Findings show that most participants are unfamiliar with the postulation of ICC. Different lengths of teaching experience, educational backgrounds, and schools’ geographical spaces have resulted in different models of culturally laden instructions and interculturality was not explicitly taught in most teachers’ classrooms. Their instruction mainly focused on linguistic aspects using authentic materials from inner-circle countries or textbooks endorsed by the curriculum. The research findings recommend that teachers be trained to make culturally-embedded instruction explicit and be exposed to cultural diversity through more intercultural encounters.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Deisyi Batunan
AU  - Siusana Kweldju
AU  - Anik Nunuk Wulyani
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/04/14
TI  - Portraying Indonesian EFL Teachers’ Perceptions and Teaching Practices on Intercultural Communicative Competence
BT  - Proceedings of the International Seminar on Language, Education, and Culture (ISoLEC 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 56
EP  - 65
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-038-1_7
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-038-1_7
ID  - Batunan2023
ER  -