The need for integrating auhentic audio-visual materrials develop intercultural competence

الملخص EN

Fostering students’ intercultural communicative competence is a process that has intrigued researchers for so many years.

This study attempts to shed light on some issues related to the integration of authentic audio-visual material in foreign language teaching to promote students’ intercultural communicative competcncc.The research method of this research is descriptive.

Thus, the data were collected by administering a ،questionnaire to a randomly selected (184) second-yearEnglish students at Batna-2 University and an interview with (08) teachers from the same department.

The results indicated that both students and teachers at English department have positive attitudes towards the integration of authentic audio-visual material to promote students’ intercultural communicative competence