The intercultural competence savoirs in the third year secondary level English textbook : hello ! English for secondary schools

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This paper reports on an evaluation of the third year secondary level English textbook ‘Hello! English for Secondary Schools’ in terms of intercultural competence within its ‘savoirs’ sub-category.

A question was raised in relation to the presence of intercultural competence savoirs at the level of the goals/objectives, texts, illustrations and activities/tasks.

A mixed method based conceptual content analysis with some relational features was undertaken.

The results have shown that this ingredient is present in terms of intercultural attitude enhancement , cultural topics and information, students’ active engagement and teaching aids/ illustrations.

However, they have also revealed that the little culture ingredient has been marginalised for the benefit of the big culture as part of the requirements of the standards-based approach connections umbrella.

It was recommended that it gets reviewed for the sake of enriching its intercultural components with more little culture ingredients.