Open AccessCultivating Inter-cultural Communicative Competence in L2 Teaching in Multicultural Class: A Critical Appraisal
Author(s) -
Sameena Khokhar,
Habibullah Pathan,
Saira Niaz,
Faiza Mushtaq
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
review of education, administration and law
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2708-3667
pISSN - 2708-1788
DOI - 10.47067/real.v3i3.97
Subject(s) - multiculturalism , communicative competence , cultural competence , pedagogy , sociology , psychology , cultural diversity , cultural identity , ethnic group , social psychology , anthropology , feeling
Language, as a carrier of cultural identities, plays a vital role in cultural exchange amongst people of diverse ethnic, social, religious and political identities.Across the globe, communication has increased in scale and speed, therefore, Inter-cultural Communicative Competence (ICC) is required in order to avoid misunderstanding arising from differing linguistic cum cultural identities as an ability to communicate effectively in cross-cultural situations.Second language (L2) teaching in a multilingual and multicultural large class is an ever growing field of research with a focus on all the aspects of language teaching along with an awareness of culturalknowledge. This Paper focuses on the need to cultivate inter-cultural communicative competence in second language multilingual and multicultural large classroom in University of Sindh. Critical appraisal of literature reveals that teachers should possess cultural knowledge of multicultural class population to connect language and culture. The role of language teacher, therefore, should not only be to enhance learners’ linguistic knowledge but also to focus on nonverbal communication skills and ICC competence by creating a link through communication between learners in a mixed cultural identities class.