الحوار المتوسطي
Volume 1, Numéro 1, Pages 66-70
2009-03-15

Intercultural Communication

Authors : Merbouh Zouaoui .

Abstract

With the increase in international trade, the global economy and the globalization of English usage, more and more students are seeking to study in order to gain intercultural understanding, to achieve individual academic goals. One of the most common reasons for students wanting to study is to improve their English competence and to improve their communicative ability with other people. One effect of the globalization of the English language is a significant increase in the number of intercultural interactions. More people than ever before are involved in interactions with foreigners and communities are becoming increasingly multilingual and multicultural to mix with people from their own community rather than interact or communicate with students from other cultural backgrounds.

Keywords

Intercultural communication-globalization-English competence -English language