DOI: 10.36344/ccijhss.2016.v02i01.003

Pages: 17-20

Currently, there is a tendency towards intercultural education as a major goal in foreign language teaching and learning. The importance of developing learners’ intercultural communicative competence has derived from the need to preparing foreign language learners, in general, and English learners in particular, for potential cross-cultural communication, in which they may encounter linguistic and cultural barriers. However, in our specific context- the English Department at the University of Tiaret and certainly in other academic contexts in Algeria, it is found that this goal is far from being reached. To bridge the gap, our main goal in this paper is to share some specific teaching practices, and showing concrete teaching models of intercultural education at the EFL department.