EFL TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THEIR PRACTICES OF INTEGRATING CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE AND INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE INTO THEIR LANGUAGE CLASSROOM TEACHING

Abstract

This study examines high school teachers’ perceptions of their current practices in teaching cultural contents and intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in the Vietnamese context. The research focuses on the teachers’ perceptions of their practices of teaching knowledge of culture and ICC to the high school students by means of their report. The study was conducted with the participation of 60 EFL high school teachers from the Mekong Delta region using the questionnaire. For qualitative data, 06 participants were interviewed to gain further information about the ways that the teachers used to teach these contents in their teaching settings. The findings provide valuable insights into establishing ICC in high-school EFL teachers and serve as a reference for future research.