Enhancing EFL learners’ cross-cultural communication skills through teaching culture : a case study of EFL students at Sudanese universities, (2022)‎

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The study aims at: improving EFL students’ cross cultural communication abilities and facilitating their understanding of other cultures through teaching authentic texts.

The study adopted the descriptive analytical method.

The data for the study were collected by means of a questionnaire from EFL Sudanese University students.

Then the collected data were analyzed by SPSS program.

The study came out with many results, the most important ones are.

EFL students need to communicate cross culturally, teaching L2 culture improves the intercultural competence of the students, it is not sufficient for the EFL teachers to teach only the grammar part of the target language, but they must also help students enhance cross-cultural competence awareness, through intercultural communication, students can learn more about other people and their unique cultures and cross-cultural pragmatic competence exposes EFL learners to knowledge of traditions and beliefs of different societies.

The study recommends: EFL learners should be enabled to cross culturally communicate with others, EFL teachers should teach cultural topics which enhance cross cultural communication skills.