Investigating the intercultural competence in english textbooks : the Algerian Middle school “my book of english-year four” as a case to the point

Abstract EN

This descriptive research aims at exploring intercultural competence in 2nd generation textbook of English at the middle school level-year four.

After reading the literature and clarifying related concepts about intercultural competence, a couple of questions are set to explore the existence or non-existence of this competence in the aforementioned book.

A content analysis was then conducted through an adapted checklist on the textbook in use.

The results showed that the textbook deals partially with some components of intercultural competence whilst the other components are still less considered.

Accordingly, recommendations were suggested as complementary remediation to the encountered lacunas.