المجلة الجزائرية للمخطوطات
Volume 19, Numéro 2, Pages 393-407
2023-08-20

Developing Efl Students’ Intercultural Communicative Competence Through Social Media Platforms

Authors : Halil Houria .

Abstract

The present study investigates the role of social media platforms in developing intercultural communicative competence (ICC) among EFL students at the department of English, Bejaia University. To this effect, a questionnaire is administered to a class of Master students (n=30). The main question raised is to what extent intercultural contact could develop in the EFL students what is known as ICC, which is the appropriateness of using a foreign language in a situation where different cultures meet. The results reveal that an overwhelming majority of the student participants showed positive attitudes towards using these social media platforms in the EFL learning.

Keywords

Culture ; Intercultural Communicative Competence ; language learning ; social media