Abstract
This research aims to investigate Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) in English for Palestine (EFP) textbooks A and B for grade seven. It adopts Byram's (1997) model as a theoretical framework for analyzing the content of grade seven textbooks. It also explores the categories and levels of cultural content to develop intercultural communicative teaching in English teaching. Further, it pinpoints different strategies to develop and promote ICC in teaching. In this qualitative research, the researcher uses content analysis. The findings show that the analysis of the Palestinian English textbooks for grade seven A and B develops ICC to a great extent. Moreover, many interactive strategies and pedagogical methods are used in these textbooks to develop ICC such as role play, poems, reports, emails, and conversations. Based on the research findings, English for Palestine textbooks for grade seven increase the awareness towards the Palestinian culture and deepen students' recognition of their identity, language and religion. It is concluded that these textbooks successfully enhance students' critical awareness and understanding of other cultures besides having a sense of pride of their own culture. In light of the research findings, the researcher recommends conducting empirical researches to measure the impact of ICC on students' language proficiency form the stakes holders' perceptions in the field of English language teaching.
Highlights
There is no doubt that the world is currently passing through a huge transformation towards modernity and internationalization
English for Palestine (EFP) has successfully promoted presenting the cultural content of the text books A and B by raising Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) through ways that are similar to the one's recommended by previous studies. This qualitative research aims to analyze EFP texts books for grade seven according to Byrams' (1997) model of ICC
It explores the ways of developing ICC in EFP for grade seven
Summary
There is no doubt that the world is currently passing through a huge transformation towards modernity and internationalization. In this westernized world, it becomes necessary to keep up with all the changes and updates in all domains of life such as social, economic, political, technological, educational most importantly cultural. Ideologies and cultures play a prominent role in familiarizing people with nations form different languages, races, and cultures (Moller & Nugent, 2014). Learning about other cultures remains a vehicle to develop and master languages (Yassin, Abdul Razak, Qasem, & Saeed Mohammed, 2020). The intensive globalization and the massive use of different foreign languages, especially English language in the last
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