Abstract:
Nowadays it is indispensable to be equipped with various interactional skills because
globalization involves increasing contacts between individuals coming from different cultural
backgrounds. The necessity to undertake this study came from multiple experiences
(interactions, communication, education…) as a West African foreign student at Abdlhamid
Ibn Badis Mostaganen University since 2014. So this current study aims to show the
importance of an effective communication skills that the students from different cultural
backgrounds use to interact with each other and understand how teachers can help them improve
their intercultural communication competencies.
The result from the data have also shown that the West African students are more aware about
interculturality than their Algerian classmates; even though both groups of students seemed to
be culturally well equipped. The teachers also have positive attitudes towards the target cultures
from the interviews and the classrooms observations.
Moreover, the goal of this study is also to underline some cross-cultural communication issues
that may be behind the communication and interaction difficulties between those two group of
students.
