The impact of an instructional program on developing the intercultural competence awareness Iraqi EFL college learners \

Abstract EN

This study is an attempt at investigating whether teaching culture have any significant effect on Iraqi EFL learners' achievement .

To fulfill the aims of the study, the researchers adopted the experimental design .

The sample of the study consists of (69) students divided into (35) students for the experimental group and (34) students for the controlled one.

The sample is randomly chosen from University of Diyala / College of Basic Education /English Department in the second term of the academic year (2016-2017) .

A test is designed and validated to be used as a pre and post test for the two groups of the students.

The test is done after teaching culture to each group seperately for two months (from October 2016-December 2016).

The exprimetal group was taugh using instructional program, whereas the contrlled group was taught by the traditional method only.

The data are analyzed statistically by using t-test formula to measure the difference between the performance of the experimental group in the pre and post test.

The data are analyzed statistically by using t-test formula to measure the difference between the performance of the experimental group in the pre and post test