Integrating “Intercultural Awareness” with Thailand’s Tertiary General English Instruction: Concepts, Guidelines and Advantages
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Globalization has changed the way people interact due to the rise of intercultural communication, the increased number of interactions among non-native English users, and the diversity of the cultural backgrounds of non-native English users. However, intercultural awareness (ICA) which is a part of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) is typically neglected in English language courses. In addition, English language teaching (ELT) seems to emphasize mastery of features such as lexis, phonology and syntax, as well as expanding the vocabulary of the students. This article aims to review and discuss the concepts of ICC and the current situation
of ELT; to describe how to integrate ICA into English language courses, and reasons to do so; provide guidelines on how to design such a course, and to outline the learning advantages in accordance with the suggestions. The guidelines herein would be beneficial to course designers who need to develop and provide their students, in particular, Thai students at the tertiary level, with the qualifications which meet the urgent needs of the present century.
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ลิขสิทธิ์ของบทความ
ผลงานที่ได้รับการตีพิมพ์ถือเป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของมหาวิทยาลัยหอการค้าไทย ห้ามมิให้นำเนื้อหา ทัศนะ หรือข้อคิดเห็นใด ๆ ของผลงานไปทำซ้ำ ดัดแปลง หรือเผยแพร่ ไม่ว่าทั้งหมดหรือบางส่วนโดยไม่ได้รับอนุญาตเป็นลายลักษณ์อักษรจากมหาวิทยาลัยหอการค้าไทยก่อน
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