Assessing Pupils’ Intercultural Competence In Efl Context

Résumé: The current research attempts to shed light on pupils’ intercultural competence assessment. This study aims at highlighting the learners’ attitudes, knowledge, and skills (linguistic skills, i.e., both receptive & productive skills) towards the target language and its culture. The focus is first and on how Middle school teachers teach the English language and its culture in EFL classrooms and foremost on how to assess their pupils’ intercultural competence. Moreover, this research focuses on learners’ awareness while learning English and its culture for the sake of developing and assessing their IC. To collect data, a questionnaire is administered to third-year pupils at Ketrouci Mohamed Middle school to reveal whether participants are interculturally competent or not. Data shows learners possess cursory knowledge about both British and American cultures. In addition to this, learners have positive attitudes towards learning about both cultures. However, they are weak in terms of translating passages from the mother tongue to English language and vice-versa. Also, they lack the main communicative skills such as critical-cultural awareness which is important while interacting with peoples from the target English language

Publié dans la revue: مجلة استراتيجيات ضمان الجودة