Studying the role of intercultural competence in language teaching in upper secondary education in the Canary Islands, Spain

• DOI: 10.7764/onomazein.26.11
• Publication Date: 2022-06-10T21:48:27Z
• Authors: Richard Clouet
• Keywords: Intercultural Competence; Communicative competence; Foreign language teaching

Since the early 1990s, there has been a growing interest in cultural dimension of foreign language education, and teachers today are expected to promote acquisition intercultural competence their learners. The present study aims investigate role culture teaching languages particularly interrelationship process learning/teaching english as an increasingly multicultural society like that Canary islands, Spain. it also proposes delve into opinions attitudes secondary school Spanish pupils on see how what extent these reflected classroom applications. order give most complete vision possible this approach, its use classroom, precedents, current situation methodological proposals, we hereby way have drawn up two questionnaires parallel both students eFL upper education islands perceive importance component class.