Intercultural Language Teaching in EFL Contexts: Principles, Interventions, Approaches and Future Directions

This paper examines Intercultural Language Teaching (ICLT) in EFL contexts, focusing on its theoretical links between language and culture, core principles, effective interventions, and existing challenges. It reveals insufficient ICLT implementation due to traditional pedagogies, gaps in teacher pr...

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Main Authors: Zhou, Jingjing, Florence Gilliam, Kayad, Vimala, Govindaraju
Format: Article
Language:en
Published: Woody International Publish Limited 2025
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Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/50794/1/07.pdf
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/50794/
https://woodyinternational.com/index.php/jtphss/article/view/267
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16296124
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Summary:This paper examines Intercultural Language Teaching (ICLT) in EFL contexts, focusing on its theoretical links between language and culture, core principles, effective interventions, and existing challenges. It reveals insufficient ICLT implementation due to traditional pedagogies, gaps in teacher practice and qualitative research. Implications for research and practice are proposed to enhance learners’ intercultural communicative competence (ICC). Keywords: Intercultural Language Teaching; EFL; Intercultural Communication Competence.