Iraqi EFL pre-service teachers' awareness of intercultural communicative competence

Abstract EN

The significance of intercultural competence is being progressively perceived by educators .

ways are being sought to assess whether or not pre-service teachers have really gained intercultural communicative competence .

the current study is an attempt to assess Iraqi pre-service teachers' awareness of intercultural communicative competence , thus the study aims at : 1.assessing Iraqi EFL pre-service teachers' awareness of intercultural communicative competence in English.

the hypotheses has been tested as follow : 1.iraqi EFL pre-service teachers' are not aware of intercultural communicative competence in English.

the random sample of the current study consists of (148) students from both sexes from the four academic stages of the English department at college of education for humanities / university of Diyala, for the academic year (2017-2018) .in order to achieve the aims of this study and to assess its hypotheses, a questionnaire has been used for data gathering and it covers(31) items.

at the beginning of the questionnaire, teachers are asked to respond to all questions concerning.

the first section contains the demographic questions.

demographic questions are designed to elicit information from respondents concerning their personal characteristics and social background.

the second sections of the instrument contains (31) items, which are measured using a five-point Likert-type scale anchored 1= strongly disagree, 2= disagree, 3= neutral, 4= agree 5= strongly agree.

the questionnaire is exposed to a jury of experts for the purpose of ascertaining its validity .two methods are applied to calculate the questionnaire reliability coefficient.

the results of the study have revealed that : 1-EFL pre-service teachers' have quite awareness in intercultural communicative competence in English.

2- the study results in the light of pre-service teachers' response showed that the pre-service teachers' are un able to engage in a meaningful dialogue with people from other countries in the same way as with people from their own countries.

furthermore , the theoretical mean is 3, i.e.

the item is achieved at level 3 and above, so it is found that, weighed mean and weighted percentile for all over the questionnaire receive (w.

m.=3.66, W.P.

=73.3).

whereas, the result of the most frequently item that EFL pre-service teachers' have an awareness of intercultural communicative competence is the item number (8), which is " i usually look for opportunities to interact with people from other cultures." (weighted m.=4.46, W.P.

=89.2).

the second most frequently item that EFL pre-service teachers' have an awareness of intercultural communicative competence is the item number (25), which is " when in another country, i try to learn as much about the culture of this country as possible ." (weighted m.=4.26, W.P.

=85.2).

the lowest rating item is number (16), which says ".

i engage in a meaningful dialogue with people from other countries in the same way as with people from my own country.

" (w.

m.=2.61, w.p.

=52.2), which is ranked (31) in questionnaire.

in the light of the results obtained, a number of recommendations are put forward.

in the light of the results obtained, a number of recommendations are put forward.